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AMERICAN HISTORY 



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TRANSVAAL BOERS \ 

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Gathered Wholly from American Authorities of Public Statis- 
tics and Business Men 



By J. WILL WAY rTREADWELL 

Author of One Hundred and Twenty Uuoks on Finance and History 



also by the same author 
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This book was made first as an Answer to Mr. Guilbert, whose 
long articles against the English appeared in the Chronicle, writ- 
ten by him after he had been for six years fed; clothed, housed, 
and paid handsome wages by those hard-working English whom 
he turns around now to abuse as a press reporter, who has passed 
a few years of his youth amid the latter-day scenes of the Trans- 
vaal mining excitement, but whose whole life has not Wen 
throbbed by the past ?<> years of African work and strife. 

To the writer of this book, a scientific historian, who first 
set foot in America in May, 1830. the story of Africa was first 
told by the broken manacles of the poor black Negro slaves, who 
in 183J had been set free by* the English House of Commons, 
and for whose freedom those best friends of the black races had 
put their hands in their pockets, and had paid 100 million dol- 
lars, to buy the freedom of every slave under the British flag; 
also to force all men. to put down "that awful crime of MAX- 
STEALIXd." for which our grand Hebrew law orders "'men to 
be put to death." xxi Exodus, 16. "Who.stealeth a man. or 
he in whose hands a stolen man shall be found, shall surely 
be put to death/' 

Just then I knew nothing of the horrible scenes of man-steal- 
ing and of murder being done in South Africa by Oom Paul 
Kruger upon poor defenseless ^negroes far away from the help, 
the love and freedom of the English. I did not then know, 
as I know now, that some little black boy-brothers of the little 
negroes, who played around me in May, 183!), who came behind 
me gently, and softly pulled my golden curls, to make sure that 
my bright yellow hair was not like a doll's wig (gummed onto 
my head as a sham), those little negroes, who wet their little 
fingers, and pressed them on the bright, pink of my cheeks in 
play, to see if the bright color were only pink paint, like that 
on the dolls in the Pagan cathedral 1 — 1 knew not that their 
little black brothers were bcinir stolen from black mother's arms 



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by Oom Paul Kruger and his cruel fellow-Boers, and carried 
into cold and cruel slavery, and sold for cash by those heartless 
Boer slaveholders. 

The negro bovs were told by their mothers: "This golden- 
"haired, blue-eyed boy with the bright pink cheeks and delicate 
"white skin comes from the land of England, whose fathers have 
"just bought the freedom of all the black men, women and 
"children slaves, with 100 million dollars in bright yellow gold, 
"that not one slave should ever be found under the Union Jack/' 
How the little fellows stood with one finger in the pouting 
mouth, and wished that they too had been born in Merry Eng- 
land, and had had a share in such a deed of love! How they 
stood in loving awe of me, and I only half realized that his- 
torically unrivalled deed of faith, and of service to Jehovah, of 
which the blessing still jests upon my head — for if "he who 
stealeth a man and selleth him shall surely be put to death." 
it is just as true, what that other Hebrew wrote: "The Spirit 
"of .lehovah is upon me, for he has anointed me to open the 
"prison doors to the captives, and to let the slaves go free." 

Yes! It was 1839, J was in America, but Oom Paul Kruger 
was in Xatal killing blacks, and his history without varnish is 
this: "When the English ordered the Boers to let their slaves 
go free, and agreed to pay them cash for the loss of the workers, 

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there arose in 1836 a body of Boers, among them Oom Paul, 
who took themselves and the cash gotten for slaves with them 
to Xatal, where they could steal more men, women and boys, 
but the negroes whipped them; so they went over the moun- 
tains into Orange State, which they miscalled Free, in order 
to hide the crime of manstealing with a falsehood. Some of 
them went out farther still to hide away from God's justice by 
fleeing from the English, and founded a manstealers' Republic 
in 1843, over the Yaal River, whence it was called Transvaal 
Republic, and told the world: "that they were so dissatisfied with 
"cruel English rule, that they, the Boers, wished to live in peace, 
"and at rest as far from the English as they could net, so as to be 
"free." But the truth was, the Boers wanted to steal men for 
slaves, and the English would not let them have an} T slaves at 
all. 

The English paid them cash to free their slaves, and to stop 
all man-stealing, which they had carried on 17 years — 1835-1852 
— and then gave them Independence in 1852, on their promise 
to give up manstealing, which they did first in 1852. 

The Boers were visited by missionaries from England, of 
whom one was David Livingstone, and he reported against them 
to the Home Societies, "that the Boers were cruel to the negro 



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"workers, so cruel, that the negroes, not properly fed, clothed, 
''paid, or taught, revolted, and Mere killed by the Boers on slight 
"pretenses."' The Boers were angered at Livingstone, and 
twisted the Hebrew Scriptures in such a way, "as to make slav- 
ery and ill-treatment of negroes lawfully ordained by God.'' 
They broke the Treaty of 1852, by shooting negro fathers and 
by stealing the children. 

Jn the "<;<>"> 1 married the daughter and heiress of Mr. AVar- 
ren, an Irish-American sugar planter, and through her I in- 
herited the sugar plantation of Rowans, but all the negroes had 
been set free even before she was born, so that I had only the 
Avell known stories of the old slave days, touched by the tender 
love of the negroes, who had been set free under the English 
flag everywhere; thus 1 am an authority on slaveholding, as 
having been an American sugar planter. 

Boeis even laid charges against Livingstone, and made things 

so disagreeable, that he went to other fields, to teach, to raise, 

"to uplift the black races, and above all to kill out the slave 

trade, which had its beginning in South Africa by the Dutch 

'Boers in 1052, when thev first settled there over 200 veais a^o 

(1652). 

Doubtless one part of that last lr>ng prayer of Livingstone's, 
in his lonely hut by Lake Bangweolo. where he was found dead 
upon his knees by his bedside, was: "that Jehovah would have 
"pity on Oom Paul and his Boers, who had dared to twist the 
"holy word of Jehovah into an authority for manstealing, and 
"that in His great mercy God would open their eves and save 
"their souls, before it should be too late for them to receive 
"forgiveness, and therefore to fall into the lake of hell fire." as 
Moses warned them: Ash qnodochoh be aphi, wa-thequod ngal 
shcol tliachathith: Dent. 32. 

The Kaffir Mar of 1834 was caused by Oom Paul Kruger and 
his Boers with their cruelties, to cover which, like the Pharisees, 
they for a pretense made long prayers, and like the Southern 
slaveholders of the State?, they preached themselves right. 

In passing there is no word in Hebrew for slave, the word used 
in the Hebrew Law is ngebed. which means working-man, and 
the Law allows a workingman to sell his services for }'ears, 
but the first day of the seventh year every workingman so sold 
went out free. That's not slavery, nor is it. manstealing, but 
is practiced in America today by farmhands. The Boers have 
spread so many falsehoods, which that* unfortunate Dutch 
ignoramus Bobert Ingersoll has picked up from Oom Paul 
Kruger and his friends, and has repeated so often, that it is 
time that we Hebrews should get a hearing of the truth. 



Krager became bankrupt through slavery, and then begged the 
English to come into Transvaal, and sold them half of all the 
laud for gold, which made him rich. Long practice of the 
Boer men, women and boys at shooting down Kaiiirs, Basutos, 
Swazis, Zulus, and other black tribes, has made them all (even 
the girls) dead shots, as "Miss. Kruger owns (see the Call). She 
"hungers to shoot at the English, whom all Boers hate," for 
freeing the slaves. 

Having roused the hatred of natives. Boer women sleep with 
a loaded rifle at their beds, so as to be able on the instant to 
pick off a native, and the farm women go to bed partly dressed 
so as to rise on an alarm and shoot. 

Mr. Uys of Transvaal thrashed .'> little negro girls to death 
early in this year of grace. 1S!)!>. The English put Mr. Uys 
in jail on trial. Pres. Kruger by the law, which allows to the 
President "rule over all Courts and actions,"' released Mr. Uys, 
the Dutch murderer, and said. "He did well and was a good citi- 



zen."' 



Thus all the Boers, old and young, men and women, have hu- 
man blood on their hands, while Livingstone, who strove to con- 
vert them to God by the love and practice of the deeds of Jesus 
in curing the sick negroes, the women and children, in teach- 
ing them the law of kindness, in raising their physical life and 
living ways, was so loved by the natives, that he needed no 
rifle, but his body was carried by their own loving hands, with- 
out money and without price to its last resting place, and his 
heart they buried under a tree. In the last day of account how 
will Odin Paul Kruger face Livingstone? Kruger and the Raad 
begged the English to settle in the .Transvaal, to save tnem 
from Bankruptcy, and sold them the land, mines and rights for 
good gold, and the Franchise for 2 yea'rs" residence. 

In 3S84 a convention was signed between the Transvaal and 
the United Kingdom, which is in force today, and Article 4 
of that Treaty says: "The Boers shall conclude no Treaty with 
"any State (save with Orange State), nor with any native tribe 
"East or "West unless approved by Her Majesty the Queen."" 

This Treaty of 188-1 is in force today, but "in spite of it the 
Boers have sent ambassadors Von Blakland and Dr. Leyds to 
Germany, to France, and to Holland, and have made secret 
treaties of help in the way of skilled soldiers, officers and en- 
gineers furnished to them by people in Germany on the fol- 
lowing understanding, to wit: that the Germans under Colonel 
Schiel were to go to Transvaal 1 , plait and build forts, and to 
form and drill foot-soldiers in the new open drill for new long- 
range field guns, to form and drill field artillery batteries, to 



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form and drill horse troops, to form and drill sappers and miners, 
and engineer brigades, that Germans would rearm all Boers 
with new Mansers and cartridges to suit, with new quickfiring 
field guns 3,000 yards range: that with new arms, new drill, 
strong forts, impregnable without a siege train, they might make 
Transvaal a fort; then slyly arm all Boers throughout South 
Africa, including those in German Africa also, and at a given 
signal they would march on Capetown and drive out all Eng- 
lish, claiming Kaiser William (whose Telegram proves the plot) 
as Suzerain and Lord Paramount of all South Africa, taking 
all the trade over, seizing the gold and diamond mines to pay 
for the cost of all the war. and asking the United States to 
lend its fleet to Germany to crush the English fleet at sea, and 
to put an end to the Empire. Russia meantime was to march 
through Afghanistan for India, and through [Manchuria to take 
ail China. 

Otic of Kaiser Willianvs admirals was to act as his cat's paw, 
to put this sea-campaign into shape for carrying out — Valois 
is his name, and his plan has been published in "Sea power, Sea- 
profit, and Sealordship," a new book, which an American officer 
(German) named Bechler has translated and declared to be "the 
"best scheme of naval policy ever made." though Germany is 
in sworn treaty with England". 

When Kruger shall have seized all the seaports in South 
Africa. Germany will by special customs duties gain all the 
trade, and all the gold, and will share it with America. All 
Germans are now granted special through railroad rales, to en- 
able them to steal trade from all others. 

There lives a God to rule and to reckon for all pirates and rob- 
bers, but England now gives to the L'nited States the same trade 
privileges which she enjoys herself: also the United States goods 
are carried in English ships from the United States seaports to 
all parts and port? of the British Empire, which keeps open 
door for all the nations of the world, and tries to persuade all 
her self-ruling lands to use a free trade tariff for all the world, 
so as to set free the toiling workers, and to levy taxes only from 
the rich, not from the poor. 

The United States know only too well the greedy trade-laws 
of Franc-.- — 10 per cent on foreign goods and all home goods 
free: Germans have stolen the railroads and trade of Transvaal by 
fraud: and Russia has. ordered all her seaports closed to any 
but Russian ships in 1001; and it must also be plain, that as 
soon as Kaiser William and Russia shall have destroyed all 
England's scapower and her colonies, the United States would 
have lost her best and only friend, her best and largest opec 



and free market for all goods, and her largest customer for ail 
farm stuffs, besides which the English Colonies are just as open 
to German goods today as they are to the goods of the United 
Kingdom and the United States, so it is only a bombastic fraud 
of William to get hold of all Africa with its trade and its gold 
fields. So stand the main facts of history about the Transvaal 
from its settlement by manstealers of 18:J-~» to the Sand River 
Treaty of 1852, when Boers signed "that Xo slavery shall be 
allowed." 

With this clear groundwork of historv I must show the tenor- 
ance of the Chronicle in Mr. Guilbert's false charges against 
English rule: 

1. "He says he will tell the chief cause of trouble between 
"Boers and the other colonists of Transvaal." His first charge 
is only a hint of "trouble from Americans, who (he says) know 
"how their bread is buttered and will make no sisrn.'"' 

That is the reverse of the truth, because John Hays Ham- 
mond has published his views in Xorth American Review, 
Feb., ISO? (the best American thought-field in the States). 
He blames Boers for stopping gold mining till 186S, also for 
bad water-supply, for bad sewerage, and bad laws of health, and 
appalling health conditions. He blames Boers for isolation, and 
raising commercial barriers at customs, and he praises the Eng- 
lish for building railroads to carry goods, which carriage the 
cattle-plague had stopped; he praises their efforts at a reason- 
able Customs Union. United States Consul-general Stowe of 
Capetown reports (322) that Kruger's private railroad levies as 
much freight on all sroods for a 47-mile haul to mines from the 
boundary as it costs to haul same goods 1,00.0 miles (or 20 
prices for one). He also tells of a Boer monopoly to knock out 
American-made candles, and a monopoly to knock out our lxter, 
and of a street-car horse-power by Boers, which knocks out 
American electric cars, because they want to steal money for 
horses and forage at high prices, by which Kruger was able to 
sell his farm for £400,000. Consul Stowe tells us Boers charge 
TO shillings a case for dynamite, while American dynamite can. 
he bought outside the Transvaal at -10 shillings, the Govt, hay- 
ing given a private monopoly to Kruger and to his German 
friends. He praises English firms for selling our American 
machinery at the mines, American doors, electric lights, tools. 
The English electric service at Kimberley is American and good. 
The electric service at Johannesburg, Transvaal, is German and 
all find fault with it. He proves extortionate customs-duties 
levied only in the Transvaal, with large exemptions to Germans. 
So Americans have made a very great sign indeed, and they 



have proved against Mr. Guilbert, that the Boers do things as 
badlv, as the English do them well. That the Boers lock out 
all American cars, lights, goods, etc., while the English use 
them and sell them to others as well. This defeats and answers 
very forcibly all that Mr. Guilbert has so misrepresented of 
Boers' awful tyranny with the help of Germans over the needs 
of life, of the daily trade, business and mining of the general 
body of the people by cruel extortion, and swindling. 

2. ''Our knowledge of Transvaal is from special pleadings and 
"ex parte statements,'" quoth Mr. Guilbert, "by the strongest 
"party." 

The knowledge that I have so far furnished is proved from 
my own life among negroes, my own life as one of those, who 
paid $100,000,000 to buy the freedom of all slaves from those 
who had stolen the men. From the well known facts of history 
as partly shown in IT. S. Monthly Summary (August, 1890) of 
Commerce of the United States, which volume is the history 
of South Africa with map, etc., and tells Boer history (1834 to 
date) shows them as runaway menstealers, who left in 1835 to 
escape being forced to give up slaves, and who did not give up 
slaves till 1852. So Karl Blind confesses in Xorth American 
Review; from him also is extracted the Text of Article 4, 1884, 
which fastens the sovereignty of Queen Victoria upon Paul Kru- 
ger in most emphatic words, signed and sworn to by the Trans- 
vaal Government. 1 also prove from Dr. Livingston's life, and 
from his reports against the manstealing Boers. From German 
A'alois' book. From William's wild telegram. From Dr. Leycfs' 
reports and agreements. From the German forts, troops, and 
arms of the Boers. To this day it is also true, that the Boer men 
and women murder negro fathers and steal their children for 
slaves. 

3. "We are to judge from the assertions and evidence of the 
plaintiff." quoth Mr. Guilbert, "who does not come into Court 
with clean hands, as everybody knows." 

As to the dirty hands of the United Kingdom of Ireland and 
of Great Britain? Let France answer, how well England has 
raised Egypt to peace, prosperity, riches, industrial and men- 
tal growth. Let the world answer how India, once for hundreds 
of years the battle ground of religious sects. Moslem and Hin- 
doo, Bifddhist and Mahratta. Scinde monkey-worshippers et mul- 
ta alia, has now a settled peace for long years, while canals have 
saved millions of lives, and railroads have raised prices of farm 
stuffs and marketed them. Schools and colleges and self rule 
have replaced barbaric ignorance, superstition, and cold-blooded 
tyranny. Let Canada, with 1(5 free nations, answer how dirty 



are English hands? Let Australia cry out and tell the freedom 
of her 10 nations? Let Xew Zealand, where the reclaimed and 
educated cannibals sit in Parliament with whites, sit in the Sen- 
ate, fill the Bench, and act as judges, lawyers and police. Oh, 
what dirty hands England has got? But what i.- the color of 
Mr. Guilbert's hands after slandering clean England? 

4. "The Boers are a perverse, obstinate, stiff-necked genera- 
tion,"' quoth .Mr. Guilhert, '"with a want of confidence in the 
good intentions of England toward them." 

There is many a true word spoken in jest, and it is true of 
Mr. Guilbert's artistic attempts at drafting a character for the 
Boers. They are all that Mr. Guilbert says of them and of their 
history. The German railroad and trade swindlers and even the 
Dutch at the Cape may indorse Mr. Guilbert. but as to the in- 
tentions of the British Government, history proves: they stopped 
the Boers from manstealing. that then the stiff -necked Boers 
ran away from these good English intentions in 1835, and only 
gave in to the good intentions of the English by giving up 
slavery, when good English gold was paid to them, and Oom 
Paul has that gold now, "the price of blood" (I think Lloyd 
Garrison called it). The demands of the United Kingdom are: 
1. Disarm; "2. Fulfil] Declaration of Independence as it is in 
California, subject to Federal Power: 3. Give Representation for 
Taxation: 4. Free Press: .">. Free schools; <>. Free worship: ?. 
Abolish Monopolies, Stop Extortion, .loin Customs-Union. Xo 
good American citizen would fight such intentions as the Eng- 
lish ask. 

5. "The Boers were treated in a way by the English Govern- 
ment." quoth Mr. Guilbert. "that was anything but conciliatory 
— "Tactless ami autocratic militarv martinets sent from En::- 
land."" 

He hides the cause of all the quarrel, which was manstealing. 
an awful crime for which death is the punishment fixed in the 
Hebrew law. Suppose that iaw. which Oom Paid pretends to 
follow, had been carried out. then the most of the Boers would 
have been executed, and an end to the crimes would have ended 
the quarrel, but England, as Mr. Guilbert later on himself con- 
fesses, has paid the Boers cash for the freedom of their slaves. 
Surely the word "conciliatory"' has no meaning, if so noble a 
sacrifice (made only in order to conciliate the Boers) was the 
"tactless work of autocratic military martinets." The world 
has long ago ruled, that it was a ransom graciously given, and 
without a parallel in all history, always excepting the descent 
of the Son of God from heaven, and His sacrifice for all. The 
Northern States might have settled with the Southern slave- 



holders that way. and have saved thousands of millions, and 
countless noble lives. The world rules Mr. Guilbert out there, 
1 think. 

6. "Slavery was abolished."' quoth Mr. Guilbert. 

This is the reverse of the truth, and touches the heart of the 
problem. Indeed it is the crux of the whole business. Beal 
history shows, that when England abolished all slavery under 
the flag, there was one body of men, who refused to stop man- 
stealing, and packing up all, with wagons and teams they trekked 
away into the wilderness, to live a manstealing. slavcholding 
life in the midst of poor unarmed, unoffending blacks. That 
V'.i- 1835, and for seventeen years, spite of all England's power, 
till 1832, these cruel bloodstained Boers kept up the slavery. 
The true parallel is the case of Bloody Missouri in the Civil War, 
there the fight for freedom against slavery came to its last 
stand, and we all know how bitter, how brutal, how barbarous, 
and remorseless were the feelings, how dreadful the deeds which 
caused such a name to be given to the unfortunate State of 
Bloody Missouri. That is the picture of Transvaal with its 
harmless Zulus turned into furies, robbed of their young and of 
their friends. Transvaal was a threat to all society, to all the 
world, until after bloody wars England made peace and forced 
Ooni Paul to behave himself in 1852, But he went on through 
the 30*s, the t'»o*s and the ?0"s breaking the Sand Biver Con- 
vention of 1852. by shooting Negro fathers who had families, 
and then stealing the widows and children into slavery in the 
form of "protected orphans.*' All this blood rests upon the - 
Boer heads today, and Cod has sent drought, cattle plague, lo- 
cu.-ts. etc., as punishment for their crimes. At last covered with 
blood Boers must be transplanted in small lots into other lands, 
and be civilized by the Colonists in other parts of the globe, as 
Americans civilized the Tories. 

T. "The trifle of monev voted bv the Parliament," quoth Mr. 
Guilbert, "as compensation to the owners (of slaves) was frittered 
away." 

Mr. Guilbert. ] hope, was wholly ignorant of that awful his- 
toiy. ] should be sorry to think he knew the history of the 
wars raised by the Boers. Therefore, lie does not, and never 
will, be able to truly estimate the noble sacrifices made by the 
English, "in keeping up at great cost fleet? of vessels to catch 
slavers, and armies to put down slavestealers. and the wars made 
by them, a cost quite up to $100,000,000, by sea and by land. 
The English have been the police of all Africa and of all 
Malaysia, also. Their work in the Sudan is another piece of 
good police against the savage Arab men-stealers. What shall 



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we think of Boersr who took money to stop manstealing? It 
must he clear to every reader, that here was the point, where, 
as in Missouri, manstealing had to stop, or the freedom of man- 
kind was lost. Look at Col. Mulligan with his Irish brigade at 
Lexington, Mo., standing off an army of slaveholders 14,000 
strong, to win freedom. That is the fight the Irish made. 

8. "Finally, the great emigration/'* quoth Mr. Guilbert, "the 
Trek took place to the Xorth. The Boers at whatever sacrifice 
fled from English rule, and established a .Republic, now known 
as the Orange Free State.'"' 

This is the reverse of the truth. The monthly Summary of 
the United States Bureau of Statistics (August. 1899) gainsays 
all Mr. Guilbert's words. At page 341: "The first emigration 
was in 1835 by Boers, who left Cape Colony for Xatal. but with- 
drew from that Colony on its annexation to the British Crown 
in 1843."' (See Xatal, p. 329.) 

The reason of the runaway is not cited, but it "was, because 
the Boers resolved to keep their slaves, and to steal more. Rea- 
sons so well known, that no one knowing African history can 
doubt it. "When Xatal came under the Crown, slavery was for- 
bidden, so the Boers in 1843 went up into the Orange State- 
slaves and all, and founded a slaveholding oligarchy there, which 
slavery lasted till 1852; so Karl Blind (the greatest friend 
Kruger had) confesses; see page 400, his history. The Orange 
Free State was founded in this way from Cape Colony, and was 
given its Independence in 1854, when slavery was finally abol- 
ished. The hateful thing in British rule to these slaveholders 
was "THAT SLAVES WERE FORBIDDEN." 

The Sand River Convention of 1852, the last clause of which 
the Boers signed, says: "Xo slavery will be permitted." Boers 
went on slyly to break their own Treaty by shooting blacks, and 
stealing children for what '"they called apprentices," and the 
slaves so made are alive today as witnesses. While the blood of 
their murdered fathers cries out from the soil to God against 
Kruger and his fellow manthieves and murderers. 

9. "They had the assent of the English," quoth Mi. Guilbert. 
"for the following five reasons: 1. Could not stop them; 2. Glad 
to get rid of them; 3. Going to a poor country; 4. A buffer 
against savages; 5. They could gobble the Boers when wanted.*'* 

Those were not the reasons. Such words are against the truth, 
but that the English troops then were not able to war in a bar- 
ren, waterless, savage district without roads. The real reason in 
1835 was, that Boers resolved to be menstealers, and by stealing 
raised the wars with Kaffirs and others of the negro races, which 
cost the English so much, that they were forced to take Hie 



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Boers in hand, and to force them to stop slavery in 1852-1854, 
as Karl Blind shows; but he hides the truth, that Boers went 
on again manstealing after 1S52. 

A true Republic has no slaves in it. But Leeause a few men 
(or in Greek an "Oligarchy") rule the large body of the Boers, 
therefore, neither the Transvaal nor Orange State were then 
republics in any way, but petty tyrannies, as the Transvaal is to- 
day, forcing the towns to use horse and mule cars, so as to make 
a sale for their farm stuffs and stock, and forbidding the peo- 
ple to have electric cars which are cheaper. That is tyranny. 

10. "Boers lived hard, rough life of frontiersmen, and were 
free," quoth Mr. Guilbert. "Soil not rich; they had plenty of 
cattle. They had no money; but no lack of food and clothes."* 

That also is the reverse of the truth. They made slaves of 
men. and rode about hunting, being too lazy to work. The soil 
is very rich, the United States Consul declares it to be so; but it 
wants irrigation, and, as Mr. Guilbert confesses, "the Boers frit- 
tered away the cash when they were finally paid for their slaves." 
The}' passed a law that no one should dig for gold, though they 
found good prospects themselves. Having no money they issued 
Rags, or debit notes (greenbacks), and their credit was so bad. 
that a £5 ($25) note was worth two shillings and sixpence, or 
sixty-two and one-half cents, almost as rotten as American Con- 
tinentals. They had no sale for the slaves they stole, and so, 
refusing to work the ground, or to irrigate it, they would have 
died out, when the cattle plague killed off all their cattle, but 
the English stepped in and supplied them with fat Australian, 
frozen beef and mutton, free of duties, and so saved the Boers* 
lives, for which thev hate English worse than all men. 

11. "They were pious, too," quoth Mr. Guilbert, "for in 
every farm-house was a well-thumbed Dutch Bible.- about all 
the reading they. wanted." 

AVe have seen that sort of piety in the Southern slaveholders, 
also, but it led to a bloody war. We have even now a Lord 
Jesus Christ of the Xorth, and one of the South, and those of the 
South will not speak to those of the Xorth, and vice versa. 
These slaveholding menstealers have broken the Church of Je- 
hovah in halves. The old question of Paul arises: "Is Christ cut 
up?" One says, "I am of this." The other. "I am of that." Tsni 
Lave believed in vain. America can never be pious or success- 
ful till that breach be healed, and the same is ti - ue of the Boers, 
their piety a? menstealers will not stand the test of the "Word of 
Y'howah, and will only plunge them into ruin here and forever 
Kruger preached all the time he was stealing men, and he 
preaches today, though 1 Cor. vi: 10, says: "No extortioner shall 



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outer the Kingdom of God.*' Even the Pharisee, Luke xviii: 11, 
boasted "lie \vas not an extortioner.'" Kruger is the heaviest, 
most barefaced, rapacious extortioner that ever breathed, and 
the chief witness against him is Mr. Guilbert himself, yet lie 
dares to say: '•Kruger and the Boers are pious" (Pharisees under- 
stood). 

12. Of the Jameson Paid, all that can be said is, that it was 
as wicked, as it was silly, to raise rebellion in the Queen's prov- 
ince of Transvaal without any train, without artillery or field 
pieces, without a commissariat, without an ambulance, and with- 
out camp equipage. That ex-officers of the English army should 
do so i< a standing disgrace to that army, some of whom must 
surely he a set of uneducated greenhorns, who have never read 
any works upon campaigning, or have never been able to follow 
out the details of Napoleon's campaigns, or Wellington's in the 
Peninsular War. But silly ami crazy even as they were, Mr. Guil- 
bert's assertions will not fasten the blame on "Mr. Cecil Rhodes, 
for the culprits having been sent for trial by President Kruger 
and the Volksraad to their Sovereign Lady, the Queen, and to 
the Government of the I'nited Kingdom, and judgment given 
accordingly: they, the Boers, must accept the judgment of their 
acknowledged sovereign, acknowledged by themselves before all 
the world, and "Mr. Guilbert must abide the judgment of the 
Conn. and. like the Court, must acquit Mr. Cecil Rhodes. . 

13. "Mr. Guilbert now takes up Outlandors* grievances: he 
says the Suffrage Quesiion overshadows all the rest. He quotes 
some hearsay talk of stray passersby against the suffrage, and 
>ays: "He never heard one man wish for the suffrage" " (in all the 
Transvaal that is). 

But Mr. Guilbert answers himself upon that proposal in an- 
other part of his story, where he owns, that a petition to Her 
Majesty by 21.000 disfranchised resident? was sent '"against the 
refusal of the suffrage by the Boers, ami demanding that steps 
be taken to give the franchise to 'the other residents as in all 
self-ruling lands." Then, sad to say. Mr. Guilbert tries to de- 
stroy that petition by saying: "It was the work of corporations 
forcing their servants to sign it. and of idle and starving men, 
poor burghers for a fee, gamblers, and landlords." He never 
teMs a word about the danger (falling upon every signer) of the 
wrath and dire punishment that the Boers will measure out to 
every man. whose name appears on that petition roll. They will 
be arrested for high treason to Kruger and to the Boers, if that 
grasping monopolist ever shall have the power in his hands: for 
he never forgets an opponent, nor does Ins watchfulness over 
those on the other side ever slumber. Those names have been 



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scan ned by good Americans, who report that they are names of 
workman who risk all for freedom and for franchise. 

14. "There is really no good land. Poor soil, droughts, lo- 
custs, horse sickness and cattle plague. They have to import all 
I read stuff.-, from the English Colonies and the Tinted States/* 

**Mr. .7. If. Hammond declare? the soil very fertile (p. *^40). 
and that forests of trees planted by the English have in a few 
years grown with remarkable quickness." There are now nu- 
merous forests of English-planted trees in the neighborhood of 
Johannesburg. He says: "Upon the high tablelands all north- 
ern cereals are widely raised. Many parts of the Transvaal are 
well watered, but for properly developed farming some water- 
dams are needed, and irrigation canals. However, in the high 
lands of the Transvaal the summer crop of maize can be grown 
without irrigation, and it is the chief food of the natives. Coal 
fields also have been found close to Johannesburg, which are now 
made very valuable by the gold mines."' These words of Mr. 
Hammond outweigh and put to shame all Mr. Guilbert's "poor 
soil mistakes and errors." 

Cattle plague is a bacillus created by the soil being drenched 
with negro blood, shed by Boer men and women all over the land. 
The book of Genesis tells us '"that our brother's blood cries unto 
God from the ground, and the murderer is cursed from the 
earth."" The cure is to turn over the soil and to cover the blood 
to kill the plague, and so to cure drought, dirty water, disease. . 
death, disaster, dry lands and all dreadful dire destitution and 
destruction made by Boer idle cruelty. 

15. '*lt is a treeless country." quoth Mr. Guilbert, "all build- 
ing and mining timber is brought from the Pacific Coast States 
and from Norway." 

Yet the men stealers have lived there shooting blacks, and 
forcing them into slavery for sixty-five years, in which time it 
must be clear, that enormous forests could have been raised up- 
on all the hills and barren tops of mountains throughout Trans- 
vaal and Orange. It is true the locusts might be urged as a 
hindrance, but they do not seem to have stopped the English 
from raising forests: and then the English found the secret of 
killing grasshoppers' seed in Cyprus, and wiped out the locusts 
in a year or two. winch had for years killed all young trees, all 
orchards, and all grass. In Cyprus (before the English rule) the 
people had been driven to the fringe of the seaboard by locusts, 
which had eaten up all tilings. Xow the locusts being killed, the 
olive, the vine, the household fruits are growing everywhere, 
and fine crops are yielding their profit, so that when the English 
regiment was ordered to Egypt the Cypriotes clung to the stir- 



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rups of the troops weeping and begging them not to leave them 
to the mercy of Turks and locusts. Let the Boers send a detach- 
ment to Cyprus to see what those Cypriotes, by the help of Eng- 
lish, have done to save land, homes, and life. 

Iti. "In the Boer Volkesraad," quoth ZM r. Guilbert, "1 saw a 
Member of the Raad stand up and call the Speaker to order for 
allowing a Boer to wear a spotted necktie, when the standing or- 
ders of the House of Parliament prescribed a white tie for each 
Member/*' 

That accounts for there being no irrigation, no good water, 
no filters, no sewers in Johannesburg, but instead a horrid smell 
of human excrement around the Boers' houses, for the members 
have all their time spent to keep track of their neckties. An- 
other member stood up to speak AGAINST a Bill for killing 
oil' the locusts. Jle reasoned that Micah. the Prophet, said: 
""Locusts are God's great army for punishing sin"; and. there- 
fore, it would be blasphemy to destroy God's army and might 
ruin the Boers if the dear locusts were killed. (X. B. He had 
not even the wit to see, that he had let the cat out of the bag, 
and that, according to his own showing, God had severely pun- 
ished the Boers for their sins by sending the locusts; therefore 
the Boers are sinners. Tableau! Yoila!) 

But that explains why the Boers never raised trees, because 
"God had not planted them"'; so as to punish them and make 
them buy redwood from the Pacific Coast States. However bad 
that mav be. we shall see tliev were not afraid of extortion, which 
shuts any one out of heaven. 

IT. "The Dynamite Monopoly (belongs to Kruger and to some 
Germans), and it charges the price of Twenty-two dollars the 
case of fifty pounds. A foreign firm offers to pay Government a 
duty of five dollars a case, if it may sell "it at eleven dollars a case, 
or six dollars a case net" — so the United States Consul tells us. 

Jn all these monopolies it is found, that there is first a cowl, 
and wicked extortion used upon the industrial body of the peo- 
ple themselves, who are engaged in the business, which uses the 
article of the monopoly's manufacture: but that charge carries 
with it an extortion of trade from other lands, as, for example, 
it is an American New York firm, which made the above offer 
to Kruger and to his Government of cheap Dynamite, and thus 
the New York firm has its trade extorted by Kruger, and ruined. 
Then there is a third extortion shown in this wonderful dyna- 
mite monopoly, whereby Kruger extorts five dollars a case from 
the Government, which New York offers to pay to the Trans- 
vaal Government on each case of dynamite, and Kruger and 
some Germans put this into their pockets. "Shochad loquach 



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thou (extortion thou snatched),'' says the Hebrew Prophet, we 
otlii shkoch thou, and "you forgot (or scotched) Me, God.*' I 
need not quote the curse due to Kruger (22 Ezek. 13), but, as a 
business man, I ask: Why should Xew York suil'er extortion? 

IS. "The excuse for the monopoly of Dynamite is: that it 
should be made," quoth Mr. Guilbert, "in Transvaal, as ports are 
closed in war." 

But none of the ingredients are found in the Transvaal; hence 
the very excuse for the monopoly kills the monopoly's existence, 
in this way, if the dynamite cannot be imported in war, so 
neither can its ingredients be; hence the making of dynamite in 
the Transvaal in peace does not in any way secure the making of 
it in war. This proves again to what desperate straits, and false- 
hoods the extortioner can go, in order to try to furnish some 
show of an excuse for such a very strange out of the way piece 
of extortion, as this dynamite robbery, whereby all the chief 
industries of the Raad and of the Transvaal are crippled and 
plundered, what for? In order to fill the pockets of Mr. Paul 
Kruger. and of those Germans, who have backed him all these 
years in his seditious tricks to try and upset all the trade, the 
business, the workers, the poor, the profit, the Government of 
not only the Transvaal, but of all the rest of South Africa: and, 
for that matter also, of all the capitals of Europe, who have in- 
vested their scores of millions of dollars in building and open- 
ing the mines, smelters, railroads, and industries of God's earth 
in South Africa. 

10. "The mines are paying twice the cost of the Dynamite," 
quoth Mr. Guilbert, "of which the Government gets profit." 

I have shown in what way the extortion is levied, and where- 
nnto it passes, whose palms it soils, whose consciences it kills, 
whose souls it claims, whose business it hurts, what industries it 
ruins: but to call all that robberv and desolation bv the "holv 
name of profit" (which means a lawful increase from the soil or 
from labor) is such a dreadful misnomer, such a pulling down of 
all sense, righteousness, peace and of power, that one wonders 
whereunto this false naming will go. We know thieves are called 
kleptomaniacs, or light-fingered people, self-murderers are pol- 
ished up into suicides or felo de se's, whores become demi-mon- 
daines, and prostituted wives are called gay ladies. But to call 
the horrible crime of "extortion a profit" is turning the thing up- 
side down so thoroughly, that the only parallel would be a 
saintly prostitute, a "Reverend murderer, or an intellectual idiot. 
The extortion is as six net to twenty-four, or fourfold robbery 
from New York firms, with five to twenty-four, nearly one-fifth 
plundered from the Transvaal Government by its own Presi- 



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dent Kruger, for his own pocket and for those Germans who are 
really putting up all these jobs and the war. Dr. Leyds says 
Kruirer has a traitor German armv of 8,000 soldiers. These 
soldier German rebels are by the law of nations to be tried by 
Court Martial and hung like Major Andre. They are chosen, 
armed, and equipped by the German extortioners, who hold 
monopoly of all Transvaal railroads jointly with Kruger. and 
they are lighting now to steal the gold mines and the diamond 
mines, and then to proclaim the Kaiser '"Lord of all South 
Africa." so that the millions already stolen by extortion may be 
used to rob Englishmen of their goods, as a return for having 
saved the lives of Boers and of Germans from the blacks all these 
long sixty years — 1835-1805. Now, a large German army, un- 
der German Colonels Braun. Bratswits and Kunze, following 
Schick 50,000 strong, are fighting 10,000 Englishmen, in order 
that they may share out among the Boers and themselves $2.- 
500,000.000 (two thousand five hundred millions) of gold and 
diamonds. The German cities. Berlin. Leipsie, Cologne. Duisburg. 
and Stettin, have declared in public meeting. •"That Boers are 
right good"" (extortioners). They SUBSCRIBED many >c«»re 
thousands of cash to help the Boers against the English. This 
has proved the Kaiser guilty by collusion with the German ex- 
tortioners, who own all railroad rights in the Transvaal, and are 
robbing the workers by extortion. 

20. "The Transvaal railroads." quoth Mr. Guilbert, "are arbi- 
trary, and needlessly irritating to all who have to deal with 
them. They charge all they can exact." 

United States Consul Stowe, page 322. says: "The railroads 
charge, for freight from the border to .Johannesburg, a distance 
of -1? miles, as much cash as it costs to haul from the seaports 
1,000 miles away. (Sec Consular Reports, October. 1890.) 

Xow 20 times 47 make 040, so President Kruger and his Ger- 
mans charge more than 20 prices for freight, already loaded on 
the car. and in transit only through their 4"i miles. How is it to 
be dealt with by God, the Judge of all flesh? It is" an old say- 
ing, "What comes over the devil's back goes under the devil's 
belly": and in my long, busy life 1 always found it to l>e so in 
the case of all the extortioners whom it was my duty to watcn, 
and my privilege to profit by their folly, for sin is folly, and al- 
ways hurts the sinner first, last, and all the time. Suppose this 
extortion should lead Kruger to a mad fiizht against a strong 
power, as it has led him against humanity and civilization, sit- 
ting down on his extortions, shouting to Xew York and to even* 
one, "What is yours is mine, and what's mine is my own," and 



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he should be hoisted with this very dynamite, and his eofiin 
travel on his rohher railroad. 

21. "The railroads were built by Dutchmen and by German 
capitalists/' quoth Mr. Guilbert, "and are managed only by 
Dutchmen. 

That bears the regular Kruger business stamp, "Xone but 
friends and relatives allowed on these premises/' but Mr. Guil- 
bert did not tell the anxious public who were craning their necks 
to listen to him, that Kruger has forbidden all other compa- 
nies, or corporations, to enter the Transvaal field or to build 
railroads. Here is Mr. Huntington's bright idea in full force, 
to wit, '"Only one railroad in all the United States," and our 
dear friend Colli? P. Esquire can throw his head back in his arm- 
chair, and say. "I die happy! my life-dream has been realized 
by dear old Kruger. and a lot of Dutchmen and Germans can 
charge twenty prices all over the Republic upon every tiling, 
the poor man's food and clothes, and the rich man's luxuries, 
implements and houses." Then he hires Bourke Cochran, the 
Democratic Orator, to get up a big meeting in Xew York, to 
pass "Resolutions congratulating the Republic (Heaven save the 
word) on its glorious achievements,*' which all Americans in 
the States shall pray for. and shall help to carry out at first 
chance, to wit. "Railroad charges twenty prices on the one and 
only railroad system of the country."' Dr. Leyds tells us Kruger 
has a Traitor Army of 4.000 Americans under Col. Blake. These 
4,000 Americans are made up of bands of lawless filibuster*, and 
are fighting under promise from Kruger of a big share in the 
English gold and diamond mines. Their lives are all forfeit by 
the law of God and of nations, and J. Filmore Blake has broken 
his oath to America, and is liable to swing like any traitor or 
bushwhacker. So will Cols. Geo. Amies, "Win. MeBride. Ei>kine 
Hazzard. and Alfred Sockett. the Engineers, who help mansteal- 
ers to pillage English and American property, while being Alien 
Mercenaries of Treaty Powers themselves. The same law of 
death holds upon Gens. Gonetzky and Deletzky of the Czar's 
Life guards, and other Russians who have betrayed their alle- 
giance by joining in the Rebellion, Piracy, and Looting. 

22. ''The railroads pay large dividends," quoth Mr. Guilbert, 
"but Government owns a good deal of the stock, and gets the 
profits" (extortion and robbery). 

I fear Mr. Guilbert has had his training in a bad school of 
morality. As for me, a member of the London Stock Exchange, 
if I dared to do such a thing, as float a company to charge 
twenty prices, I should find a policeman sent from Newgate or 
the old Bailey to have a tender, affectionate embrace of my 



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hands. I say nothing about my conscience — how I should writhe 
and sweat in an agony of fear upon nly pillow; I should see in 
my Dreams the avenging angel of Jehovah on my track, if I 
dared to call twenty prices a profit. In the morning 1 should 
he posted in the Exchange as a fraud, my Company he damned 
by a Court Judgment disallowing such extortion. But then 
Kruger was a trained man stealer and Killer, suckled and nour- 
ished as such. He was fugitive from justice in 1835, as I have 
proved, and again in 184:5 — his hands are red with the blood of 
many a poor innocent black who defended his negro father's 
farm, and Kruger's pockets still hold the blood money of the 
slave.- which he stole and sold. Well may he and his German 
fellow-extortioners pay large dividends to themselves on a rail- 
road condemned even by stockbrokers. 

23. "Other grievances of English." <juoth he. ''are teaching of 
Put eh speech in schools, corruption by Boer Government. Boers 
think the soil is theirs, though they stole it from the blacks, 
whom they killed.*' 

Xein! spraeh der M order Du bist mein 
Penn Ich bin gros und Du hist Klein. 
How history does repeat itself! The little bully of the school- 
yard rinds a bigger bully outside, and so on. It never seems to 
strike President Kruger that the soil is God's — it belongs all of 
it to our Jehovah, and we, the puppets of the play to-day. drop 
behind the curtain, when we have strutted out our day. to leave 
to other puppets the vast heap, on which we toiled and lost our 
sleep. Penn buving all the lands from Indians. Earl Grev buv- 
ing all the vacant lands of Xew Zealand from the Maori chiefs 
under the Treaty of Waitangi. How much better than 'Teh bin 
gros. etc." Less rumpus, too! Less blood letting, also! More 
love — more peace. The Boers deny free speech to the majority! 
"Be me sow]." said Paddy, ''it's moighty quare now! To sthrap 
a craythurs tongue." 

Corruption by the Government! Well, but Kruger preaches, 
and his text ought to be, "Woe to you Pharisees! Ye love-to ap- 
pear in the chief place of the synagogue, but in secret devour 
widow's bouses, and for pretense make long prayers.'"' 

'24. '"English saved Boers' lives." says John Hays Hammond, 
"and their settlement has been made only possible through the 
help given by the United. Kingdom in suppressing the revolution 
of the Kaffirs, with whom the pioneer Dutch came to hand to 
hand fights." (See page 234.) (By manstealing it was.) 

Englishmen follow Penn, and so they bought Kimberley: they 
bought the gold fields of Johannesburg from the Government, 
and have spent scores of millions in solid buildings, plants, and 



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mine-works. Hence, they gained fair title and stole nothing. 
They Aid more, they pacified the Kaffirs, and built for them 
schools and houses, and railroads: else, indeed, Kaffirs would 
have eaten up the Boers. The Chartered Company has put its 
strong shield oi police around' the Western border and the North- 
ern border of the Transvaal. Well, what is the return!' The dogs 
whom they fed (the libers) turn to bite the English hand that 
shielded them, and to rob the properties which English bought 
and improved. The very railroads which brought English beef, 
mutton and flour to the Boers, when the cattle plague had killed 
all oxen and sheep, are to be stolen by the Boers whom they 
saved. Mr. John Hays Hammond gives no figures of the cost 
paid in hard cash by the British tax-payers, of the precious lives 
given by the thousand to bring peace, progress, prosperity, and 
praise to Africans in place of death, destruction, disease, desti- 
tution and dreary savagery with which the Boers had covered 
South Africa by their cruel manstealing, murdering, mercenary 
slaveholding. 

•25. The cost by land and by sea must be $100,000,000, and 
that has been cheerfully borne, and even paid with pleasure, 
prayer and praise, in order that native black races, those first 
holders of the soil of Africa, might be lifted from the darkness 
of heathenism to the light of grace, from the worship of mas- 
cots and of idols to the knowledge of the only true and living 
God. Vhowah. in the person of .lesus Christ, the second person 
of the Threefold Cod. who made tliem, redeemed them, and will 
vet reign over them. •'Curses fell upon the Boers." as thpy say. 
in the words of Mr. Guilbert. their apologist, "drought, cattle 
plague, locusts, horse sickness, bad water, and worse, bad health 
laws, and. when their slaves were torn from their grasp and set 
free bv the English, the Boers fell into open bankruptcy" with 
greenbacks at forty dollars for one gold dollar, and sitting upon 
The gold, passed a law: '-that no gold should be dug in 1SGS.** 
They were idle beggars. Then English and American-English 
dug the < r old. bought the mines and invested scores of millions. 
Creed kindled in Boer hearts, and they got the German Emperor 
to help them seize the English properties, first by taxation with- 
out representation, then by extortion, and now by the cutthroat 
process which they have already used to the blacks. 

26. "The Chartered Company/' quoth Mr. Guilbert, "is the 
perennial stirrer of strife, the real abettor and encourager of the 
disaffected, the mainspring of the movement against the Gov- 
ernment of the Transvaal, the hidden hand thai pulls the wires." 
The facts proved in Ibis Answer and History show from 
American witnesses, that the awful crimes of extortion on goods 



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and freights, of monopoly of every kind of business, and of Mich 
injustice that Chief Justice Kotzc, refusing to agree to it, was 
turned oil' the bench that the two most awful crimes that can 
be committed by any Government, to wit: "Taxation without 
representation," and the slavery of ".No franchise"' are done daily 
and yearly by the Transvaal Government, who therefore are 
daily and yearly stirring up strife, abetting and encouraging dis- 
affection, and this Kruger-Yolksraad Government is the main- 
spring of all the troubles, the bidden band that pulls the wires. 
So testify J. Hays Hammond, Sydney Brooks, and the United 
States Bureau of Statistics. Now we see the piles of gold ex- 
torted by unlawful taxes and charges visited by the curse of 
Ezekiel xxii: 13: "I will smite my band on thine extortion, 
which thou hast done, and on your blood in the midst of you"' 
(Boers). 

27. "The Chartered Company." <]Uoth Mr. Guilbert, "has an 
immense advantage over the Boers. It has enormous wealth at 
its disposal." 

This is the reverse of the truth. For the Chartered Company 
lias been doing nothing a? vet. but spending monev in making 
roads. Railroads and improvements, in building mining cen- 
ters, plants, and equipments, in building towns, and bridging all 
rivers. When Y'howah smote all the Boer cattle with the 
plague, because those same Boers bad shed the blood of so many 
blacks, it was the Chartered Company's Railroads and cars that 
brought up carloads of frozen beef and mutton from Australia 
and New Zealand to feed the starving Boers, who would have 
died without that same food. Then, also, the English took the 
duties off meat and food stuffs, so as to lei the Boers have cheap 
food by. the Chartered Company's Railroad. Thus, after saving 
Boers' lives from the terrible starvation brought on by the cattle 
plague, which arose from the cattle feeding over the plains of 
Transvaal in which the gore of the blacks murdered bv the Boers 
had bred that mysterious disease — these same Boers steal Eng- 
lish wealth to kill their saviours, the English. That is the posi- 
tion they bold. 

28. Mr. Guilbert says: "All the writers who inveigh against. 
the Boer oligarchy, have no personal knowledge, but derive their 
theories second-hand from prejudiced statements."' 

In this answer, 1 have taken the words out of Mr. Guilbert's 
own mouth, to prove the petition of 21,000 men. who are now 
marked for execution by Boers, to prove the extortion upon 
dynamite, to prove the extortion on railroads, to prove the rob- 
bery of the people by monopolies, which belong to Kruger, to 
the Germans, to Hollanders, and to the Transvaal Government. 



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I have brought Mr. Hays Hammond into the witness-box, who 
knows more of Africa and the Transvaal Government than Mr. 
Guilbert ever did or could. 

Tlie United States Bureau of Statistics gathers its facts from 
our own United States Consul General in Africa, and in this 
\Y;iv no sucli charge, as Mr. Guilbert lays against others, "of sec- 
ond-hand theories derived from prejudiced men, without per- 
sonal knowledge. 7 ' can ever he brought against me. for I have 
condemned Mr. Guilbert out of his own mouth, and so I have 
left him without an excuse for all the falsehoods, which he has 
invented against England. 

•>!). Mr. Guilbert says: "The British South Africa Company 
has paid up in gold £3.750.000 ($18,750,000). It has paid no 
dividend, nor indeed is it likely to do so; before the interest eats 
up the Capital/' 

Here then again Mr. Guilbert most plainly and painfully be- 
lies himself, for he has only just before said of this same Com- 
pany. "It has immense advantage over the Boers; it has enor- 
mous wealth."' Xow he tolls us it has spent $18,750,000, and 
can get no dividends, nor is it likely to get dividends, because 
the interest will eat up the capital. There is an old English say- 
ing that Mr. Guilbert should learn, it says: "Liars should have 
good memories," because, it means: if he told the truth and for- 
got what he had lied about, then his own words would convict 
him of being a liar. Robert Ingersoll said at a banquet of law- 
yers: "Gentlemen, there is nothing like a good strong lie,«well 
sworn to. and backed up with false evidence to win a case." 
Thr American lawyers hissed him. and he ceased right there. 
It must be plain to every one that Mr. Guilbert "s own words (as 
above) have dismissed all the false charges, which he lavs 
against the Chartered Company. 

30. Mr. Guilbert then says: "The Company spent in the year 
ending March £783.000, and only received £273,000. and the 
deficit for this year will make the loss a round million. The 
Company has spent its capital in Wars with natives, and build- 
ing Railroads," 

>>o this ''enormous wealth, which was such an advantage over 
Boers, as Mr. Guilbert told us before," is really losing one mill- 
ion pounds sterling each year, and the capital, sunk in wars with 
the* blacks, is of course wholly lost, though he owns it saved 
Boers' lives. It must be easily seen that the Boers do not want 
any such "immense advantages" as those, nor indeed could any 
person, who was in his right mind, call a yearly loss of one 
million pounds sterling, and a capital buried in wars with na- 
tives (in order to save Boer lives), "an immense advantage." 



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These two cannot he made to agree, to wit: the yearly loss, and 
the wasted capital, with the immense advantages. It is useless 
to reason with anyone whose words belie each other, because 
such a man's mind is too weak to remember what In- says at 
one place, and so lie denies it at another. The Dukes of Fife 
and Abercorn are fully avenged on Mr. Cuilbert. who stands 
convicted of willful untruth. 

31. "Very few Europeans," quoth Mr. Guilbert, "have gone 
into the country with the intention of making a home. 1 met 
many who had returned. The prospectors, who had found noth- 
ing were disgusted and cursed the country."' 

Mr. Cuilbert has been in that land six years, and he must 
know something of the causes, but he does not tell them. First. 
There were no railroads, and the cost of getting anv goods over 
those vast realms was so enormous and so tedious that prolitable 
work could not be done. Then there was no home market for 
food and farm stulfs. until the English came and created the gold 
mines, coal mines, diamond mines. While the cost of getting 
lumber or furniture was prohibitive. Fuel also, as used by the 
Boers, was dried cow dung, while they were sitting on top of 
the finest coal mines in the world, and when a railroad had to be 
built Kruger gave some Germans the sole ownership of all the 
railroads in the country, and as we have seen the Germans are 
charging twenty prices, gave Kruger a big share for mailing, and 
paid him large dividends. That is why he has a German army 
of 8.000 men. who will fight for the plunder of the poor, and of 
the industrious. Then Kruger put on enormous duties, so that 
the cost of food, clothes and tools was raised to impossible fig- 
ures. .No markets, no carriage, no cheap food, no fuel. Kruger 
made all the disgust and the loss, helped by Mr. Guilbert. 

32. "1 can say honestly/' quoth Mr. Guilbert. "that, in all the 
time 1 was in the Transvaal, there was no talk <>f grievances 
against the Boer Government among all those with whom I as- 
sociated, or was brought into contact with." 

In the very next words he gives himself the lie direct by "say- 
ing: "'At breakfast the host excused the horrible rancid bacon 
(made by the Boer farmers) by cursing the Boer Government. 
who had put a tariff-tax of twenty cents a pound on the super- 
excellent English bacon." 

Here then is the proof of what 1 have written, given now by 
Mr. Guilbert against himself, and the extortion of the Boer Gov- 
ernment reaches even to the food, on which the poor are forced 
to live. They read their Bibles often enough to know that 
Y'howah ranks this crime of extortion along with murder, theft 
and whoredom as a sin, which He himself will punish with their 



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own blood (see Ezk. xxii: 13), but, when this extortion reaches 
the poor by raising the price of bacon to fifty cents a pound, it 
causes death by starvation, and so becomes murder: when, also, 
we bear in mind to what use the cash extorted is put. then in- 
deed the crime is manifold, for Kruger and the Baad use that 
plunder to build forts, to arm foreign traitors against the Queen. 
33. '-Afrikanders look upon the African blacks with COX- 
TEMPT."* quoth Mr. Guilbert, "and, had it not been for the 
Boers murdering the native blacks for eighty years, there would 
have been no room for white settlers, because the land was so 
thickly peopled by blacks,"-* when the Boers stole it. and killed off 

the owners. 

History tells that from 1652 to 1S35 the whole Dutch of the 
Cape have been manstealers. and murdering the blacks, in order 
to steal their children into slavery: that then the English in 
1835 ordered all slavery to stop, and paid for the freedom of 
their slaves. The fathers of the Transvaal and Orange Boers 
in 1836 pocketed the English gold for their slaves, and went out 
over the Orange "River and its branch the Vaal, in order that 
tliev mMit steal men and children, and make slaves of them. 
They raised rebellion among all the black nations, till, in 1852. 
England forced them to stop slavery by law. but they practiced 
it then with the addition of perjury and blasphemy, as Mr. 
D* Evelyn of the San Francisco Geographical Society proves.. 
They shot black fathers, who had children, then went to a Dutch 
magistrate, and swore they had found some poor orphan blacks, 
for which they would take care, and so took, under name of ap- 
prentices, more slaves by murder and perjury, by stealing the 
owners of the soil. Yet these criminal Boers are Mr. Guilbert's 
friends. Like loves like. 

31. "Kaffirs are animals of great fecundity." quoth Mr. Guil- 
bert, "not yet so in touch with civilization, as to take measures 
to neutralize fecundity.'' 

Here we can see right down into the innerman of Mr. Guil- 
bert. who mistakes those methods of old Sodom, by which child 
womb-murder is done for civilization. All the heathen civiliza- 
tions from Sodom up to date, when they became wealthy, made 
use of child womb-murder by drugs and by machines, and for 
that crime were all wiped out. But. as the first order given to 
-Adam and Eve by Vhowah was "to fill all the earth with chil- 
dren." and. as the destroyers of babes have always been destroyed 
by Y'howah from Babylon with the worship of Melitta. and 
Greece with the worship of Venus, and the Latins the. same, 
down to France, which is on the verge of destruction, and its 
own Chamber of Deputies has declared by a law fining people 



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who have no children, and giving a premium to those who have 
them, so the crimes of these Boers, who have murdered scores 
of thousands of fathers and children, and have done extortion 
(the punishment of which is their blood), have come to judg- 
ment at last. The tone in which Mr. Guilbert speaks of womb- 
murder, the doggerel Latin. "Neutralize fecundity/' under which 
he hides the crime of old Sodom, shows, that he has no horror of 
that sin. and is, therefore, guiltv of encouraging it bv his smooth 
speech. The negroes are higher in rank than Mr. Guilbert with 
his Sodom ways. ' 

33. "The Kaffir fears the Boer," quoth Mr. Guilbert, "who 
rules the blacks with a rod of iron, and not always with justice." 

To those, who do not know the history of the manstealers, 
the above statement reads their minds into the falsehood, that 
the cause of the fear which the Kaffirs have of the Boers is "be- 
cause the Boers are unjust to them": but that would only pro- 
voke rage in the Kaffirs against the Boers, and lead to a fight. 
Injustice docs not create fear, but always anger. So Mr. Guil- 
bert is plainly giving a false ground for the great fear in which 
Kaffirs are kept. 

The cause of the fear in the minds of Kaffirs is the scores of 
thousands of their friends and relatives murdered by the cruel 
Boers; the scores of thousands of their children stolen into slav- 
ery by Boers, the steady cracking of Boer rifles at Kaffir women, 
boys and men by the Boer men, and by Boer women and even 
girls, who are all trained shots, being skilled in killing the swift 
wild deer, which abound all over that country to fill a large part 
of the kitchen larder for every Boer: besides, they find it useful 
to kill a negro without courts or trial, whenever they want his 
land or children. The women sleep with their rides at the bed 
head, when their husband are away, and kill negroes. Guilbert 
himself tells us the Boers cleared the country of negroes for 
eighty years. 

3fi. "The Englishman is the kindliest humanitarian." quoth 
Mr. Guilbert. '"'but in practice the Kaffirs must kotow to him, 
and Kaffirs have no rights which the English are hound to re- 
spect. 

.\s in former points, so here, the very best answer to be found 
against Mr. Guilbert's untruths can be gotten from his own 
words in other places, so a little farther on we read: '"The sugar, 
tea. and coffee planters depend on Indian coolie-labor." quoth 
Mr. Guilbert, "and, if you thrash one of these coolies, he will 
go into court (by arresting you), and his word will go as far 
(with the English Judge) as your word, and you will be heavily 
fined" (as a white man for thrashing a black man). 



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So. again, Mr. Guilbert gives the lie-direct to himself, for he 
proves, that with the English Government in Xatal all men are 
bom free and equal before the law, and that the Kaffirs are re- 
spected by the magistrates as much as the English are. While 
(as we have just seen) the case of the Kaffirs among the Boers 
is thai the negroes are shot without trial, and. as Mr. D' Evelyn 
proves: '"Boers shoot negro fathers so as to he able to steal their 
children as slaves, even 1o this day."' Dr. David Livingstone 
charges worse crimes, whipping with thongs to death. 

37. "The Boer Government,"* quoth Mr. Guilbert (he is speak- 
ing one week before the Boers declared war), "may determine 
not to wait till the English disembark more reinforcements, and 
not to depend altogether on a defensive warfare." 

Underneath those words it is easy to rcacl that Mr. Guilbert 
knew verv well what Dr. Levds, the Boer agent, has told us about 
the foreign bodies of traitors already engaged and trained to 
fight for the Boers to steal the English and American mines. 
Why does Mr. Guilbert hide these tremendous treacheries? Be- 
canse out of the £10,000 ($50,000) cash paid monthly by Boers 
to bribe the newspapers in Europe, America, and Africa, no 
doubt Mr. Guilbert has received a large sum for writing all theie 
untruths, and no doubt the Chronicle has received an enormous 
sni;! to publish these bold untruths, which (everybody can see) 
give to themselves their own lie direct. Dr. Levds publishes the 
tr;ii;<>r forces as: "Germans 8,000, under Col. Sehiel: Americans 
4.00O. under Col. Eilmore Blake; Hollanders 2,000; Irish 1.000; 
Swedes G00; mixed 1,000; Dutch from Crown Colonies 8.000: 
all. 23,000. All these are promised a big share in the gold and 
diamonds if they steal them. 

3s. "Jf the English Parliament has to be called,"" quoth Mr. 
Guilbert. "before a war is declared (by the Boers understood), 
then Mr. Chamberlain may not have things all his own way." 

This also shows that Mr. Guilbert is hiding some hidden ar- 
rangement (of which he knows) between President Kruger and 
the Rand, and this pirate armv of foreigners, under Sehiel and 
Blake, and that the plan is, as so often stated: "To drive all Eng- 
lish into the sea and to kill all those English who remain." It 
must be plain that Mr. Guilbert's statement, "that Mr. Cham- 
berlain may not have things all his own way, if he should wait 
until Parliament has met," is a strong threat that by that time 
things will have been done that will make war impossible. The 
first of this history was written before outbreak of war, but now 
the thing is burst open, it is well to call heed to the boast of Paul 
Kruger: "God is with me, and 1 will be in Capetown with my 
Boers on 31st October, where we will hold a masque ball, dressed 



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nj) in British uniforms; and dance at the conquest of all Africa 
from the English forever."' God lias given Kruger the lie. 

3!>. "Mr. Chamberlain knows what he should have found out 
before,"' quoth Mr. Guilbert, "that England will be opposed, not 
only by the Transvaal, but by the Orange Vyqq State as well, and 
half the people of the Cape are also Dutch, whose blood is thicker 
than water." 

Here. then. Mr. Guilbert lets out the thing which lies fester- 
ing in his breast, to wit: "That for years past word has been 
passed round from Boer to Boer, not only in Transvaal, and iu 
Orange, but in all Natal, in Cape, in Barolong, in Bechuana, in 
German West Africa, in all the provinces of South Africa, that 
wherever an old Dutch manstealer, slaver, and murderer, whose 
hands have been stained with the blood of the poor Africans, 
the first owners of the soil, shall be found, the Dutch shall arise 
and join to shed the blood, and to steal the property of those 
English, who dared to free their slaves, and who, coming into 
the land (after the Dutch had been sitting idle there for two 
hundred years. IGo'Z to 1852), created those great gold mine-, 
those diamond mines, those vast coal fields, planted green forest-, 
that grow with bewitching quickness on those bare sad hills, 
and raised the value of every acre of soil in South Africa by 
hundredfold in value. That rifles and guns have been given out, 
and bodies drilled and enrolled secretly among those, who were 
sworn to allegiance to the Queen and Crown of the United King- 
dom, ready at the word to drive those English into the' sea. So 
that the old manstealers. having for long years (with the help 
of Germans) robbed all the English by the most unheard of ex- 
tortion and trade pillage, should use the very gold which they 
extorted from the English in order to arm themselves, and steal 
all the fruits of English skill." 

40. This is the plan to which Mr. Guilbert alludes, and he 
knows as well as 1 know, that £10,000 a month has been set apart 
to hire scribblers like himself to make up every falsehood, every 
slander, every scandal, every libel that can be wrung from 
twisted facts, and from crooked minds against the English, in 
order that a false and fraudulent antagonism may be raised 
against the men. who bought that ground and spent scores of 
millions in creating those mines, works, and cities which they 
own: and that an equally false and fraudulent sympathy may be 
raised in favor of the band of Boer extortioners, manstealers. 
murderers, slavers and loafers, who were so busy killing and 
stealing the native negro-owners of the soil, and making them 
herd their swine for them, while they, the Boers, smoked their 
pipes, shot game and negroes, and then, like the Pharisees, went 



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up to. the House of God with their pockets full of plunder to 
thank the Lord of Hosts that they were not as other men are — 
not like the.se English workers, who created the wealth — not 
like the negro, easy-going, helpless children of the soil; hut that 
thev were the chosen of Y'howah to seize everybody and every- 
thing, and kill men. 

41. "Ingratitude is the hasest of crimes!"* This Mr. Guil- 
bert, who confesses that he has been for six years ill the Trans- 
vaal, as servant of these same English, working at the expert part 
of mining, selecting ores, and doing chemical and other work of 
that kind round English smelters, mines, and prospecting, lifts 
up his heel to kick those whose bread he has eaten, at whose 
expense he has been fed. clothed, housed and rewarded, and for a 
price he slanders, he betrays and libels those English, who made 
his what he is to-day. But, as a falsifier he is so clumsy, that 
there is not one slander, one libel, or one scandal, which he lays 
against the English, but, as J have fully and forever proved in 
this book, there can be found in his own handwriting, in his own 
words, and in his own evidence, the very best answers to all the 
false charges, slanders, and libels, which he has trumped up 
against his benefactors, the English. 

Thanklessness is the lowest of sins; ami the criminal, who 
abuses hospitality, is by the law of God and of nations under 
sentence of death. All persons who owe allegiance to Germany, 
to America, to England, and who abuse the English by breaking 
their country's allegiance, in order to slay and to rob them, have 
to pay their lives as a forfeit for treason to the English, who 
sheltered and fed and enriched them. That also (as 1 shall 
show) applies to the Transvaal and Orange as to all foreigners. 

A2. We have first to ask: What benefits, safeguards, enrich- 
ments, improvements, nourishments did the Boers (and Guilbert 
among them) get from the English? 

The benefits are: That the English paid them gold to free 
their slaves, and stopped their mansiealing, which everywhere 
as in the United States, breeds trouble, sorrow, and war — that 
was the greatest of all benefits. The safeguards are: That the 
Government of the United Kingdom spent scores of millions of 
dollars in pacifying the native tribes all round the Boers. On 
the East the fierce Zulus and Basutos were domesticated and 
reclaimed by the English, with the gospel of peace and industry 
of trade. On the West the Beehuanas. On the Xorth the Jlata- 
bele and ifashonas, who also are in process of taming by 'peace 
and trade. Thus, the English saved the lives of all the Boers, 
who would have been slain by the millions of negroes. The en- 
richments are: The English found, developed, and worked all 



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the mines, upon which Boers sat idle for two hundred years, 
; but not only so, they raised t lie value of Kruger's farm from 
! £3,000 to £400,000, by making all farm stuffs and live stock sal- 
able in a good home market, where before there was no market 
' for them a I all. The value of all lands and houses rose. The im- 
provements are: Lines of railroads on every side, north, south, 
east and west, which never could have been built by the Boers, 
for they had no traffic to keep them going, and even now, as Mr. 
Guilbert prove? against himself, the railroads built by the Com- 
pany, tinder Duke Fife and Duke Abercorn, have so far swallowed 
up many millions, not yet paying interest. These railroads 
have led to towns and cities arising, which make home markets 
for the farmers, whom (1 have shown) they are enriching. 
Manufactories are rising. Plants of all kinds are being built 
for all sorts of industrial purposes, and these again create a 
working population, which will want still more improvements. 
Rivers are bridged. Tunnels are cut. Drains, waterworks, all 
the needs of irood wholesome life are being cared for by the 
works and plants fit for them and for the benefit of the Boers. 
The nourishments are: That by means of the very railroads, 
which Mr. Guilbert decries, the English were able easily and 
cheaply to save the Boers' lives by feeding them with Irozen 
beef and mutton, and all good dairy food, when the cattle 
plague had destroyed all their cattle, and left the Boers foodless 
paupers. The English also paid in millions of gold to the Treas- 
ury, which the Raad presented to the Boer farmers to enable 
them to restock all their farms, and to buy clothes for the poor 
ruined Boers. Thus they fed the hungry Boers, clothed naked 
Boers, made homes for the destitute, and saved them from dying 
of famine. 

43. Xow Ave have to ask: What return have the Boers made 
to the English for all this kindness, love, salvation and enrich- 
ment. The Boers raised an army of foreigners 10,000. and 
35.000 Boers, and like a bully they are trying to crush and ovcr-^ 
power 10.000 English, caught by Boers unawares, the English 
never thinking that those whom tliey had saved would bite their 
hands and rob and kill them. 

Boers repaid the English |for freeing the slaves] by enslaving 
their English benefactors, in taxing them without representa- 
tion. 

Boers repaid the English [for saving their lives] by swearing 
to kill all English, and drive them into the sea. and never to 
make peace with them. 

Boers repaid the English [for replacing th^ir dead cattle for 



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them] by raiding all the English provinces of cattle, looting all 

stores and private houses. 

Boers repaid the English [for building railroads] by blowing 
the railroads up and tearing the rails up, and burning down the 
stations, and killing the servants. 

Boers repaid the English J for enriching their farms, and their 
ruined fanners] by looting all mines of thousands of ounces, and 
looting the stores of English, pulling the men out and blowing 
their brains into the gutters, by burglarizing the banks, and 
stealing all the bank cash, £800,000 from one bank, £500,000 
from another bank, stood up a train and robbed £300,000 gold, 
and ordered bankers to come to them or be robbed of every- 
thing. These manstealers have now iilled up the measure of 
iniquity, and will be judged by God. 

-14. The blood of the scores of thousands of murdered negroes 
still cries from the ground to God for vengeance, and the price 
of blood is in Boers" pockets still. The Word of Y'howah orders 
us, that if any one shall steal a man. or if a stolen man shall 
be found in anyone's hand, the thief and the holder of the stolen 
man .-hall surely be put to death. In America the Federation 
failed to obey Y'howah's law, and the Civil War was sent as a 
punishment for slavery. In Africa the English failed to kill 
the Boers, as ordered by the Law of Y'howah, and the Canaanites 
being left in the land have poisoned the soil with the blood of 
murdered negroes, which creates the bacillus of the cattle-, 
plague, and kills all fourfooled stoek.who feed with their noses to 
the ground. The proof is that ploughing the land kills the cat- 
tle-plague by destroying the bacillus. Xow the English sutler 
for leaving these manstealers in Africa, as the Israelites did for 
leaving Canaanites in the land, and the only cure is to trans- 
plant all the murderers — as the Americans transplanted the 
Tories, forfeited all their estates, took all their" personalty, and 
sent them over the border. So the Acadians were transplanted, 
and the names of the land changed. The Boers can be trans- 
planted into colonies in penal settlements, and saved from more 

sin. 

45. How will it ever be possible to bring the Zulus and Basutos 
Jesus," as long as the murdering Boer manstealers are left 
in the land? These poor negroes will say: "Do you want us 
"to love the God of the Boers, who murdered our fathers and 
"•'mothers, and stole our brothers and sisters into cruel and hope- 
less slavery? If that be the kind of God, that God of the 
"manstealing Boers, then we do not want Him, and we will never 
"love or serve llim, because like the Boers he would kill and 
''enslave ug." 



so 

I Jut when the Wood -stained Boers are all transplanted into 
far away lands among people, who do not steal men, nor for a 
pretense make long prayers or sermons, hut among people who 
obey God's word, and kill off the menstealers, then the poor 
negroes will say: "Yes, we see now, those Boers have blasphemed 
"Y'howah by hit, and they have broken all His laws, and so your 
"God Jesus has forfeited all their property, and their lands, and 
"has shipped them away; now we can be happy, and can wor- 
ship the real Y'howah. not the Dutchman Ingersoll's false, 
"lying God of slavery! We will settle down to work and to 
"farm and to be happy with you the English, our saviours, and 
""with the real, the true Y'howah Jesus Christ.''" 

As Mr. Beitz, the Boer statesman, says: ''There never can 
"be peace until all we Boers are sent out of the land." He 
spoke better than he knew, and has given true and good coun- 
sel to the English, to ship all Boers over sea, and to plant them 
in small bodies among New Zealanders and Australians, who 
will disarm them all. and keep them in order, and forbid them 
to return to Africa under penalty of death, if thev dare to 
return. 

4(>. Mr. Smuts has truly said, as attorney general of Trans- 
vaal: "We Boers will make the Transvaal and Orange a hell 
"upon earth to every Englishman — all shooting and unrest. 
''Ireland shall appear as a peaceful land [but when was ever a 
"warmhearted Paddy either a manstealer or a slavcdealer, like 
"these Boers/], compared with what we Boers will make the 
'"Transvaal to England, only the biggest armies can keep Eng- 
"lish in the Orange and Transvaal after the war is over."' 

Even Mr. Johannes Bissik. who founded the city of Bissik. and 
who has publicly said: "That he and a few others would have 
"gladly granted to the Outlanders the franchise and representa- 
tion which they asked for, because that would have been only 
"equitable."" lie is himself now. cutting English throats, steal- 
ing English gold mines, looting English houses, raiding and kill- 
ing and eating English cattle, and the cattle of the Basutos, 
Zulus, Swazis.and Bechuanas.who are loyal subjects of the United 
Kingdom. Even Kissik is dipping his hands in English blood. 

4 7. This proves beyond all doubt, that Boer promises and 
pleasant talk are only a sham, put on to cheat the English into 
a false peace, and into trusting themselves to this Canaan ite-race 
of Boer manstcalers, murderers and truce-breakers. 

The further proof is, that these Boers go into what they call 
churches, and give thanks to their God, for the slaves they have 
stolen, and preach themselves right (as the Southern slaveholders 
did) and offer the proceeds of the stolen men and cattle to God, 



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n)i(l pay the 1 extortion, that .they have squeezed out of the min- 
ers, to God, forgetting that God says: ''The sacrifice of a wicked 
''man is hateful in the sight of Y'howah, and that He will visit 
"the extortioner with blood." 

Again and again the Boers, when lighting, nut up a white 
flag, when they are being beaten, and when the English come 
forward to receive surrender they shoot at close quarters to 
kill all the English. By international law no quarter is given 
trueebreakers. Along with their ambulance wagons (when gath- 
ering the dead) Gen. Joubert sends his artillery officers in the 
disguise of wagon-drivers to spy out the English fortifications, 
and he refuses point blank to allow the women and children to 
have the fortress when surrounded by Boers. Then he thanks 
Almighty God for dead English, whom he has been enabled to 
slay by tricking them with a white flag. Lastly he makes Ger- 
mans and Americans perjure themselves to the United States 
and to Germany, so that he may have [as he has got] a traitor- 
army of 10.000 men. By the laws of war any general, who does 
that, forfeits his life, and it is very mistaken kindness to let 
them go free from that punishment. The Boers also picked the 
pockets of the poor Kaffirs, returning home from the mines and 
>tolr- their wages from them. 

4.S. How then can such barbarians be suffered to live in the 
land? Even passing over the train robbery of a million and a half, 
and the burglary of banks, and stealing ten million dollars cash 
out of the vaults of the foreign banks, stealing the mines, bur- 
glarizing all the stores, and picking pockets, there arises. the 
greater problem, to wit: All Boers must be disarmed, and put 
under penalty of death for arms. or they would rise again to upset 
law. order, just ice. and property rights. Then the native Africans 
'would go in and revenge the SO years of Boer murders by which 
(the American Mr. Guilbert rejoices) they, the Boers, made room 
for whites to live in Africa, and the soil would again be red 
with blood. Even now the English can hardly keep the negroes 
from killing all the Boers. Therefore in love and kindness to 
Boers they must be transplanted into far distant colonies, and be 
made to work for a living instead of manstealing and hunting. 
Their forfeited lands can pay the cost of the Rebellion and Kaiser 
William can pay 100 millions for sending 8,000 German soldiers, 
under Colonel Schiel, who has had such nice correspondence with 
the-Kaiser, and has built all those fortresses in Transvaal. The 
Kaiser can pay up all the railroad and dynamite extortion, which 
be has plundered from the common people by his own subjects — 
most of them living in Berlin. 

The names of all places can be translated into English, and 



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memory of Boer crimes will be wiped out. When the soil is 
turned over, the blood of the murdered victims of Boer- will 
no more breed the cattle plague. 

Meantime the native African mothers croon their deathsong: 

The black mother croons 'neath her shelter in woe. 

.She stanches red streams from her husband that flow. 

His rich gore of life stains the Transvaal red sod. 

From Kruger'* sharp knife she looks up to our God. 

She cries in her anguish, Oh! Father above! 

Look Thou down on this! In Thy tenderest love. 

My fatherless babes are enslaved by the Boer. 

Our hills and our glades stol'n by Steyn and Kruger. 

Thy vengeance for blood (Thou Thyself Lord! hast sworn) 

Shall come from our God on Boer children unborn. 

While 1 roam alone! All my children are slaves. 

Let Boer blood atone! Pise! God! Dig Thou their craves. 



Note.— Pirates are warned not to set my song to music. 1 
have already set it, and it is copvriirht. 

This then is the summary of the causes of the crisis: When 
the English had stopped slavery and murder by Boers the Eng- 
lish found, bought, worked and equipped mines. The Boers 
then hated the English and plotted to rob and to kill them. 

1. Boers refused franchise to real workers and owners of 
mines. 

2. They refused all free speech, or press, and broke up meet- 



mgs. 



3. Plotted with Kaiser to give Germans all railroads and 
monopolies. 

4. Used extortion by German railroads for Kaisers subjects' 
good. 

5. Gave monopolies dynamite and all goods to Kaisers sub- 
jects. 

6. Refused free schools to Outlanders, or free worship. 

7. Spent all plunder and extortion by charges on food and 
on railroads in getting an army of 8,000 of Kaiser's subjects to 
fortify all the Transvaal, in equipping an army of unfranchised 
foreign subjects 20.000 filibusters, to destroy and rob the Eng- 
lish, and to proclaim the chief plotter (Kaiser William) Lord 
Paramount of South Africa. Kruger declared war on the Eng- 
lish by Me and Gott. American Germans (robbed on their goods 
by the Kaiser and his felonious subjects) should resolve: "That 
^American-Germans protest against Kaiser William's extortion 

'on railroads and plunder of trade, by his felonious German- " 



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-All the Economists of the world have failed to find out 
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WORK. J. W. T. 



EVILS OF GOVERNMENT SAVINGS BANKS. 

Copyright, J. Willway Treadwell. 

The proposals for the opening of Government Savings 
Banks in all the Post Offices of the United States, which have 
been made now by no less than 14 Comptrollers of the Cur- 
rency, deserve the most searching thought, 2nd I have com- 
piled examples from Banks in other lands in this Essay. 

It is on the weightiest of all the branches of the Savings 
fund of any nation, and the problem is a world wide prob- 
lem, being once more the greatest question of Home Kule 
against paternalism. It is idle to begin by g"ing to Eng- 
land to copy the banks of a little land, in which you can 
travel from end to end of the place in an hour or two, and 
to Br»k lu mnke tnai a. u odel for ibis v si continent of 
50 nations, or to quote the unlawful Statute passed in the 
House of Commons 17 May, 1S31, by Gladstone's power, 
but which has alreadv worked much mischief, and is bound 
yet to work still more mischief. The Government of Eng- 
land is founded to withhold the wicked from evil, or to fine 
them for wrongdoing, and to guard and cherish the good 
and the downtrodden, but no right can ever be found to tax 
the general body of the people for the benefit of those who 
save money. I was the first and the only man to point out 
the disorders, the ruin to hamlet and to realm, which must 
arise from such a glaring breach of all the old Common 
Law rights of England by the encouragement of a crowd 
of public creditors. 

28G. Here then is thought search of the Government 
Savings Bank. First. It raises a crowd of public credi- 
tors whose interest is against that of the general body of 
the people. There is no need to quote cases from history, 
which should readily come to mind of any thinking man, 
or of careful readers, but in England there is the awful ex- 
ample of Charles the Second, the last but one STEWART 
king of England, who took up some millions of the Savings 
Fund and then closed the Treasury, and spread ruin and 
misery among the goldsmiths, the bankers, and through 



thein amongst the people of London and of England. Such 
was the outcome of Government borrowing the Savings in 
England. Tlit-u in the TJ S duiiug the revolt of the thirteen 
Co onies from Englnud ihe thirteen Colonies took up $200,000 
000 of the Wealth Fund, and filed a clean schedule in bank- 
ruptcy, they abandoned or repudiated the AYealih Fuud 
and spread such ruin through the young Republic that it 
was put back for 101) years by the dead loss of such a vast 
sum, which would have made large capital if they had only 
guaranteed redemption. 

The public creditors were among the chief factors 
of the great and bloody Revolution in France, so that they 
are a threat to the freedom of the people. In the settle- 
ment of those debts the creditors swindled the people out of 
nearlv all the landed estate, which had been confiscated 
from the runaway nobility and from the priesthood. The 
public debt question between the U. S. and France very 
nearly led to a war and bloodshed, which would have been 
very disastrous if a settlement had not been reached. 

To bury public Savings in public debt is a great 
folly, because it leads to public extravagance or waste by 
the politicians to use the Savings Fund for the State in- 
stead of taxing the rich out of their surplus wealth to carry 
on the Government of the countrv, as true economy orders. 

This extravagance or waste is seen in the last gold re- 
serves of the Banks, which were deposited in the hands of 
the Secretary of the Treasury for SAFE KEEPING, and 
the hungry Congressmen ordered them to be called Reve- 
nue, and then spent them in making billets for all their re- 
latives and friends, $55,000,000. 

The United States break everywhere, in every way, the 
laws of true finance by burying all the Federal taxes, bury- 
ing all the State and County Taxes, instead of paying those 
hundreds of millions into the banks, and so we are beaten 
by every other nation in tlie use of inonev. 

To bury the money in public debt is to forbid it to 
earn interest by the creation of handicrafts, powerhouses, 
or industries of many kinds. 

C**b that is lent to bay f p ^ to bow the land earns not 
only its interest, but it earns enough to pay all costs and ex- 
penses, and earns a living for the farmer, taxes and rents of 
the house and land, without which cash advance it would be 
no use to cultivate the land, for without seed all is worth- 
less. What applies to land applies also to handicrafts, and 
to all kinds of farming or business. Ilence it must be seen 
that to bury all the Savings Fund of any land in a public 



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debt spent upon unproductive or non-profit making pur- 
poses, not only destroys the Savings Fund but forbids it to- 
earn any interest at all, or to bring forth the profits, which 
are shown above. 

To pay interest out of taxes instead of out of pro- 
fits is a wrong system, which is against Common Law. 

I do not think any one will demy that Government is 
formed to keep order, to give access to all markets for all 
men, to hold back vice, and to encourage industry. But we 
all deny that the Government of any land has any right at 
all to levy taxes for the purpose of being able to suck up all 
the Savings Fund, and after squandering it upon expenses,, 
which should only be paid out of taxes, to send round the 
tax gatherer in order to collect the interest, which ought to- 
have been earned as I already show herein by good banking 
and lending. 

Properly speaking public debt has no right to exist at all, 
because only such expenses or Appropriations should be 
provided for every year as can be paid out of the year's 
taxes. Therefore all public debt is really only delayed 
taxes, which should be wiped away at the very first chance. 
Yet in France and England the Savings Fund has been 
gathered and swallowed in debt spent in bloodshed, which 
is Deferred taxes. 

It would cause unlawful jumps in the price of the 
Public Debt, and so it would, and does stilt, the price by a 
false market. This arises thus: The Savings Fund instead 
of being loaned in the District where it arises, and where it 
wou'd do the most good to trade and farming, which need 
cash as a fertilizer, is taken out of the District altogether, 
and carried into the great central stock market, where the 
Savings are daily INVESTED (as. they falsely call it) in 
buying some of the public debt, which, of course, becomes 
stilted by that repeated daily buying, till the stock, though 
DEBT IS NOT A STOCK, is bulled far above its own natu- 
ral level of value. So in France, where as soon as a deposi- 
tor gets 150 francs at credit, the money must be spent (not 
invested) in public Debt. This rule causes a steady stream, 
•of cash to be always flowing into the debt of France (which 
should only be paid by taxes), and so forces price of the debt 
up, until holders of debt are tempted to sell. If France 
should ever be distressed in a war, the Savings Fund being 
destroyed, and really put nowhere, then the fall in the price 
of the debt would be great and ruinous, because the debt is 
only deferred bankruptcy. 



It .would make something iuto nothing, but in war 
all Savings having been absorbed in debt could not be 
realized, and all would break down together. 

The great public debts of the nations are a novelty in his- 
tory. Time was when instead of a nation being encum- 
bered with a debt, it had what is called its TREASURE- 
CHEST, and it js the case to-day in the Courts of some of 
the Rajahs and princes of India, who have vaults full of all 
kinds of wealth in jewels, metal bars, coin, plate, etc., which 
in a war are the sinews or strength, which enable the com- 
missariat of food and shelter to be at once and well car- 
ried on, and the cost of moving troops to be ready at hand. 
But by some fascination of wickedness all the falsely called 
civilized nations of Europe have great and costly debts, 
or National bankruptcies, and the worse foolishness is done, 
that even the Savings Fund of the people, which is the re- 
serve on which all industries rest, is turned from being 
something in to being a mass of bankruptcy, or zero less 
the volume of the savings. When the great war, that is 
looked for among the barbarous folk of Europe, shall break 
out, then those nations which have funded or floating debt 
will fall into hopeless ruin, and make such a time of trouble 
as never was seen, because there never was such debt. 

.Now let me smmarize the evils of Govt. Savings 
Banks: 

The}' create a class of untaxed public creditors, for whose 
profit the whole body of the people are to be taxed. .True 
Taxeaters. 

Thev bury the Savings Fund of a nation in debt, and cor- 
rupt a representative Government to be a spendthrift peo- 
ple. 

They kill out the use of the Savings Fund, and leave the 
inland and country districts without funds for loans or 
works. 

They forbid money to earn interest by its use in profitable 
undertakings, destroying bank capital, and the whole 
State. 

They turn all thrifty people into taxeaters, yet there is no 
power to tax for private profit of the few. 

They cause a forced market for the public debt, and stilt 
the price of it till it reaches an unnatural value. 

They turn something into nothing, because the money is 
squandered instead of being invested in wealth. 

They breed a race of rotten stock gamblers. 

They will all break down in war, pestilence or famine. 



Europe, since Cromwell died, has sunk into barbarism by 
piling up enormous heaps of bankruptcy, by which the in- 
dustrial classes are loaded with taxes. 

Now we can turn the picture in financial reverse 
by looking at the three great banks on the Pacific Slope. 

The Hibernia Savings and Loan Assets §43.500,000 

The German Savings and Loan Assets 28,500,000 

The San Francisco Savings Union 25,750,000 

besides the Columbus, French, Humboldt, Mu- 
tual, Savings & Loan, Security, Union Trust. . 18,000,000 

55 California country banks 30,000,000 

Here are the e banks which are fountains of life to the 
cities and to the counties of the States along the Pacific 
Ocean and inland country, and return it all to those who* 
have use for it, in order to make profits out of the ground,, 
or out of business, or out of handicrafts, etc. Without the 
money of these banks and their smaller sisters, California 
could not be where she stands to-day. They create a class 
of TAX PAYERS, not tax eaters. The Savings are all in- 
vested, not spent. They are a fountain of life to the coun- 
try. They enable idle money to earn interest. They en- 
courage the thrifty. They have little to do with the public 
debt. They turn waste capital to good account, and create 
wealth. In trouble they are a comfort, and in sorrow they 
are a joy. 

.Now let me show the vice of the English Savings 
Banks. §500,000,000, is paid in by a crowd of only 6,000,- 
000 depositors, whose wage-list is about onchalf the aver- 
age of Americans, therefore in order to understand the 
amount that would be equal to it in America, I must multi- 
ply by -1— making £2,000,000,000 paid into the hands of Gov- 
ernment by depositors, 13,000,000. This represents about as 
much as all the circulation of cash of every kind' in the 
United States, and about three times as much as all the 
funded debt of the United States to-day. The problem is. of 
course, What to do with 500 millions? In England the Gov- 
ernment bury all those savings in bankruptcy, alias the 
debts which the Government has not been able to pay. But 
the outcome of buying up so many hundreds of millions of 
debt has been to drive up the price of the debt from 00, at 
which price the 3 per cent, debt used to sell, to 112 for the 
1\ per cents., so that the interest received on the invested 
savings is only £2 9s, or §2.45 per §100. 

Put this §2.1 pe r cent, upon the §500,000,000 is real- 
ly not interest at all, but it is a tax levy to pay for bank- 



ruptcy. The meaning of the word interest is not under- 
stood even by those who call themselves economists. It is 
a Latin word, and is not so good as the Hebrew word Ra- 
bith, which means GREATEXIXG, or growth, because all 
true interest is a growth coming out of the use of the capi- 
tal, to wit: if capital be loaned on a ship, the cargo earns 
growth or interest; so of a farm; so of a factory; so of all 
businesss, and of all handicrafts. It is for that very aim, 
that a Savings Fund is created in any country, so that as a 
tool it mav cultivate all business and trade, or as a fertil- 
izer it may renew the ground and make crops grow, which 
growth or output is a new creation of earth or of work and 
is so called in Hebrew Rabith, or Interest in Latin. But the 
taxes collected to pay the yearly debt charge are DE- 
STRUCTIVE of wealth and of output, they are a burden of 
taxeating put on the people, and not a blessing but a curse. 

208. The driving up of the price makes a loss to Eng- 
land on the rate, which she has guaranteed to pay to the 
depositors, which is §2.95 per cent; the loss is 50 cents per 
?100. Here there is another new tax over and above the tax 
put on in order to pay the debt charge of §2.45 upon the 
cash of the Savings Fund which is buried in debt; there is 
a further sum of 50 cents to be gathered by taxes, in order 
to pay the yearly charge of §2.95 guaranteed by the Govern- 
ment to these public laxeaters. 

In order to stop this yearly overcharge a proposal has 
been made by the Commissioners that £30 be the sum fixed 
as the limit of a deposit (§150); also that all debts up to £50 
shall be charged at 2} per cent, a year; that all debts to 
£100 be charged at 2 per cent., and also nil debts up to £200 
be paid 1^ per cent. In that way the yearly debt charge 
will be brought down from §2.95 to a charge below §2.45 of 
the Consols bought. 

299. Resides burial of the Savings Fund in a debt, 
and the taxes gathered to pay the interest on this unpaid 
debt, there is I he fact that many well-to-do people, who 
have no need of the patronage or charity of the Government,. 
are using these Savings Banks whose funds are growing 
§50,000.000 wvvy year. This is unjust to the masses, that 
rich men who are too lazy or too incompetent to make use 
of their money themselves in trade or in business, should 
seek to make use of the costly agencies of the Government 
to take care of their cash, to bury it all in the public debt, 
and to send round the taxgatherer every year to gather up 
taxes to put into the pockets of these taxeaters who, if they 
did but rightly use their cash, would be able to create a 



growth of wealth out of it, and so would help to pay the 
taxes, instead of joining the mob of taxeaters themselves. 
All the vice springs out of the making of these public debts, 
or unpaid bankruptcies, for if they were all paid off and 
wholly extinguished there would be nothing left to eat up 
taxes or to bury money in. 

These 500 millions should be scattered in piiiall loans 
in everv district in which they arose, and thus would have 
fertilized the trade and commerce of each district. 

This is perhaps the most weighty point of all, that Eng- 
land is busy sucking up the lifeblood of trade and of handi- 
crafts in every little village, hamlet or town, besides also 
in all the great cities, in order to gather all that wealth, 
which we see makes now ST»00,000,000 (1808) and to bury 
it in debt, and to forbid anvbodv to use it. 

Yet it must be true, that here is a capital £120,000,000 
far, very far more large than the capital of the Bank of 
England and of all the great London banks together, which 
if it were banked instead of buried, would push England 
far ahead of where she is to-day, would, in fact, drive her 
right into the front rank of the nations, for it is as great a 
sum as all the geld and silver in the Dank of France, which 
is the business basis of all trade in France, also its reserve 
chest, and its note issue basis. England buries it all and 
loses. 

Jn a war that GOO millions would not be found in an 
easily available shape of wealth, but it would be worse than 
nowhere, because calls would be made for it in stress. The 
sale of the Consols would make a fall to §0 from 112, and 
the Government would have to make good a loss of 32 on 
each 100 of par value of stock, about 8200,000,000. People 
would insiston having their cash, and the only possible way 
of getting cash would be to sell the debt in which it has 
been invested or buried at any price on the market. Of 
course, the debt instead of realizing the £112 given for e;>ch 
£100 would sell at about £80, and cripple England with the 
fall, the sale, the loss. 

Whereas, if that 8600.000,000 be invested in the local 
.wealth, handicrafts or industries, it would be not only avail- 
able for use without sti iking down the credit of Govern- 
ment, but it would be a prop and safety for the English 
Government, on which it might lean safely, or draw loans 
from in stress, because real wealth always rises in value in 
any war, and this 8000,000,000 would do so too. 

The Government would be crippled in three ways 



at once: 1. To make good 25 per cent, loss on 600,000,000, 
or a special loss of about §150.000,000. 2. To be forced to 
be selling consols in face of a new war loan, which of itself 
always puts down the price heavily. 3. Therefore to lose 
another 20 per cent, of any such new war loan — through 
the selling of the savings in time of stress would be a ter- 
rible blow to the national credit. It must never be forgot- 
ten (until it be mended) that the Bank of England is built 
on a debt also, instead of being built, like the Banks of 
France and of Germany upon wealth. Therefore in a war 
instead of vaults full of gold, they are full of debt securi- 
ties, there is not a cent of gold to pay the first issue of notes, 
the second issue claims all the actual gold, the sudden call 
for ea*h to pay all these depositors their 000,000,000 of 
wealth would break everything down, and would bring the 
great bank amid the ruins of all the Savings Fund, the Debt 
and all trade and commerce. London should heed well 
what I say, and should now at once reform all their bad 
banking. 303. Now let me translate all that vicious Eng- 
lish finance into American Savings Bank statistics. 

In nil the Saving* B*nks»nf th«- U S the sum of tbe cash 
deposited is §2,000,000.01)0 or about s2.~> a head on all the 
people in the U. S. To copy English folly: 1. We must 
order all that cash to be taken away from every one of the 
1,000 banks. 2. "We must create a large public debt to bury 
all that 2.000 millions in it. 3. So we must destroy all the- 
lending power of the Savings Fund ofevery State. 4. Close 
the industrial factories, the farming, the trade. businVss and 
thrift which are now carried on by the means of that 2,000 
millions of Savings Fund. 5. Then a large burden will be 
added to the load of taxes to be gathered from the taxpay- 
ers to pay the yearly charge of the debt of 2,000 millions. 
<». The verv Savings Fund itself is utterlv wilted out, swal- 
lowed up in a public debt. 7. As fast as the new Savings 
Fund grows it is seized also, and the people are forbidden 
to use it. 8. The great local wealth, that such loans create, 
dies also with the the Savings Fund itself. 0. Americans 
are driven abroad to borrow the money from foreigners, 
which should be and is now furnished by their own Sav- 
ings Fund. 10. TTence a large yearly remittance of interest 
upon these foreign loans over 2,000 millions, being about 
§100,000,000 (a hundred millions) yearly, will have to be sent 
away out of America, instead of being paid into America 
by the industrious. These banks would make Amer- 
ica the bond slave of Europe in a still more infamous way 
let me emphasize this judgment "that Americans do not. 



" want to enslave themselves, as Europe Las done, by tyin 

- Sff^ ar ° UD , tl,eir ^ t0 dra « »-' ^ 
ui.de, the feet of money lenders, and to kill out all the! 

^ ^—ned wealth, and snatch it away to give to foreig" 

Postal ^° B ; takc up tht ' se 12 economic plagues, which U. S 

are over , mm a W ° UW StDd f ° rth U1 ' 0n A ">«ica n s. Ther. 

taking, n ,' VIDSS BaL ' CS lD tLe U - S - ^ »* work 

as we Z th \ Sa T SS 0f tbis assemblage of 00 nations, but 

manv or HH m C ° ming Jm " W£ ™ sU ? see 10 «»« ". 
many, or 10,000 savings banks at work in cities that are 

which are surely going to arise in America. Then the de- 
posits of those 10,000 banks will be §20,000,000,000 (twenty 
th., us »„d mdhon do.larn) and Postal Banks would close aU 
that army of banks, and in place thereof, would (1 ke the 

,;:„ " ,be U " C!eS ' ,Le C0Usi - *°* the aunt 
Of all the Congressmen and the Senators, even unto the 

bird and fourth generation, provided with eats at he pub 

He enb in the shape of 100,000 postal savings bank^ ' 

TLe n having destroyed the 10,000 banks, it will be 

G tie" ,° "" T C0P> ' th ° UmViSe E "^ tanC o 
tols for i„ whnTo , a PUb " C *** ° f tWe " y "~ d "'"- 
vast wealth 0t " er ^ C ° U ' d "* eV "' < iud a »* '« W 

In time coming when the population shall have doubled 
he Savings Fund of this enormous continent will be a ve ,r 

pace America ,„ the front rank of all nations for wealth 
Therefore n, making h,ws for the United States all , , 
ta t upon the great future that is to be and not , poo the 
i tie, almost insignificant, State to-day. as compared wh 
the boundless, mighty, overwhelming sweep of he future 
which clearly lies ahead of us. If i„ K.^am] to ^ ^ 

Tv?7!T: ', ,Ut "" " Savinps F " ud of r-oo.noo.on'o ; 

000 f m '•' WS ' ,lK ' n WUat S ° rt ° f Fl »' d will 140.000- 

o u^ i J; " S IM,t " P !n the ftW — « f ^ars just ahead 

^e in^e 7^^^^!^^ " 7^ 

tint ,n f . T + .. ., «-«iojiai3 ui.it follows froio 

that fact o wit: that each State would then be forced to ■ 
go abroad to <r e t the loans wlii,.., ot .„ * 'oitta to 

n™ +i -<v ,./ nSj wllIcn at present come out of its 

own thrift and its savings fund 

That is really the position into which America has been 



driven by storage of silver to the bulk of §000,000.000 in 
vaults. If that same cash were given to France, and used 
as she uses her silver, it would be all banked, and upon it 
would be issued hundreds of millions of notes on bankable 
assets, so that the wealth of that cash would be multiplied 
into 1,800 millions, or three-fold, whereas now it is all 
buried against all rules of banking in a useless vault, and 
worse still it is represented by store warrants, called certifi- 
cates, which are legal tender as gold to the Government, 
and therefore are the best cash instruments to destroy the 
gold balance in the Treasury, 

Or to close up industries now fed by 2,000 millions. 
If we follow English savings bank system we should even 
now be forced to close up all those industries, which are 
now oulv kept alive bv the two thousand millions of Sav- 
ings Bank loans, which are actually in force to-day. Think 
what a holocaust of work, business, thrift, industry, of 
homes, of situations, of trade, of farming, of every kind of 
honest human thought and work the U. S -would burn up 
by following this accursed English savings system, as it is 
falsely called, but the true name of the English postal sav- 
ings banks ought to be 'GRAVEYARD OF THRIFT," be- 
cause the English BURY all the thrift and savings fund 
of their whole people in the ruinous and dangerous old 
GRAVEYARD of public bankruptcy, to wit: Debt which 
thev were unable to pa v and when thev had become bank- 
nipt seizing the Savings Fund to pay their bankruptcies 
(that is to buy Consols. 

So a large burden will be added to the taxes, in or- 
der to pay those taxes, which will be needed to pay the 
yearly charge- of that enormous debt of thousands of mill- 
ions. After I called public heed to this great and unknown 
economical falsehood of burying all the savings of a people 
in bankruptcy and raising taxes to pay the charges upon 
that bankruptcy, the English went along smoothly, think- 
ing that all was well, and that they were doing quite rightly 
by the laws of Sound Economy. The French did the same, 
and so these two powerful nations have been leading their 
own people into wrong paths, and setting a bad example 
to all the world of putting taxation in the place of thrift, 
and thinking that it was light. In France the enforced 
buying of he Government Rentes witli the people's savings 
has driven up the price of the public debt beyond all bounds. 
The moment a war shall have broken out these Rentes will 
be away down in price, say 30 per cent., and then the rush to 



get back their savings out of the debt will drive the price 
down out of sight, at the very time when Gov't have most 
need of credit, their credit will be destroyed bv themselves. 
Instead of which they should have a Savings Fund to call 
upon. 

The whole Savings Fund will be wiped out. That 
is the case now in England and in France, as I have fully 
proved; there is no Savings Fund left, it is all buried in 
bankruptcy, and in. a war when call shall be made for it, the 
onl}' answer will be the sale of Gov't securities, by which 
the country will be discredited and ruined. Then it is clear 
that the same thing will happen in America if we should be 
so unwise as to copy these barbarous and uneducated Euro- 
pean nations. But it would be worse for America far, be- 
cause in Europe they at least have RESPONSIBLE MIN- 
ISTERS, who can be called to account and dismissed bv the 
people at a few minutes or days of notice, and their acts are 
keenly watched by the LOYAL opposition. But in America 
there is no CABINET. There is no LEADER in the House, 
no one RESPONSIBLE to the House and to the people for 
any bill or measure. The Speaker makes the Committees, 
the Committees rule the Congress, and vet thev are ac- 
countable to nobody. Therefore the Speaker and the Presi- 
dent constitute a tyranny of two, who can be at the beck 
and call of Plutocrats. A savings fund in their hands is 
sure to be lost. 

The new Savings Fund will also be wiped out be- 
ing sucked up as the Savings fall in. It is well known that 
in Europe the Savings Fund has a tendency to grow larger 
and larirer vearlv. and this is ihe case much more in Amor- 
lea, because of new towns, cities, etc., opening vear bv vear. 
In times of prosperous harvests and good mining the in- 
crease of banking all round is great and easily seen. This, 
then, is the chief point, that in all new centers the Savings 
of each district being used in their own Local District every- 
body gets the benefit of them, but under the Postal Banks 
all that movement, push and drive would be hopelessly 
destroyed, and people would have to beg of some Wall St. 
man or go to foreign nations to ^ot for the purpose of daily 
profit the xery cash which they have foolishly buried in pub- 
lic debt. These new savings would constitute a Revenue for 
the corrupt throng who infest Wall St.. and would pour 
these odds and ends of Savings into the taxeators' arms. 
What could Wall St. do with such a constantly growing 
fund of new Savings? Corrupt as they already are, things 
would soon be much worse. 



The great local wealth created by Savings Fund 
will be all lost iii every County. This is looking at the out- 
come of loans, for it is not only the losing of the Havings 
Fund, but the losing of the earning of the loaning of the 
Savings Fund. There are two classes among the industri- 
ous, the saving ones who do not know how to use what they 
save, and the leaders of undertakings, who found industries,, 
open mines, build roads, factories, ships and do all kinds of 
contracts, these last are real busy bees, and they use the 
Savings Fund to create all kinds of wealth by borrowing 
upon the work they do or can do, so as to open up new ways 
of life by money-making. When a district has no Savings 
Fund, there can be no such army of working bees, and of 
course there can be no new undertakings, no new works,, 
no reclamations, no opening of districts, no new inventions 
put to work, no farmstull's worked up, no canneries, no 
mills, only the dull dead round of daily toil. Politicians, 
would like to destroy the great wealth-making power of all 
the brightest and best citizens, and plunge America into the 
sleepiness and gloom of idleness, forbidding them to open 
up districts. 

Americans will lose ali of their loanable capital and 
be driven abroad for loans. Then there arises out of a pros- 
perous working community what is known as surplus loan- 
able capital, which can no longer find work in its own land 
or sphere, so it has to go abroad to find a use for itself. Eng- 
land is the great object lesson of this economical law; she 
lends to friends. Even her great foe is found to owe the 
Lord of the Ocean cash galore. All nations come to her to 
borrow, because her people are always creating wealth, and 
saving. It is a sign of failing strength of mind and of race 
when such a land as England, which has been made great 
only by Savings and by loans, should fall into the dotage of 
burying her savings in the public debt 

America would make large yearly payments abroad 
to pay charges upon foreign local advances. Now we see 
the sad outcome of all this foolish economy, besides losing 
the Savings Fund, besides losing the profit on the Savings 
Fund, besides sending round the taxgatherer to pick the 
yearly charges out of people pockets, besides losing the 
power to open up new Districts, or to liven up old sleepy 
hollows, America would send away large tribute to foreign 
lands every month in the year v -^t* 

Americans would have a big bonded debt upon all 
the people to represent these savings, and a second bonded 



debt to foreigners for the loans needed to replace the lest 
.savings. I think it must be clear that the real last outcome 
of these false Postal Savings Hanks must be, first, the mak- 
ing of a big home bonded debt, partly sold to foreigners, 
and so drawing taxes out of America vearlv, parti v sold to 
bankers to bury their capital in, so that it is stolen away 
from trade and business by this false economy. Second — 
The making of a vast bonded Debt to foreigners for money 
loaned to take the place of the Savings Fund, which the 
Postal system would have buried in the public debt. 

Let me illustrate by the Savings Hanks of San Fran- 
cisco. There is no finer field to illustrate economic law in 
currency, in banking, in public debt, in foodstuffs, in readi- 
ness for. war than San Francisco. Thanks to W. C. Ralston 
here is a monument that lifts its lofty head over all the na- 
tions and leads the path to safety, riches and honor for all 
mankind. In currency, all promises to pay Ralston forbade 
.and got a clause put into the California Constitution to 
make them all unlawful. He strictly followed the gold and 
silver tender by each State as ordered in the Constitution. 
Ralston refused to allow a public debt, and the result is 
that this great Empire of California is really free from debt. 
He refused to take the floating debt notes issued by Con- 
gress, except at a discount, and then shipped them East as 
gold drafts. lie helped to establish the Savings Hank sys- 
tem, which now has about 100 millions of Savings Fund in 
San Francisco alone, and in the Provinces, now called Coun- 
ties, there are Thirty-one millions more. Some of Cali- 
fornia provinces now are richer than European States, and 
this Empire begins to rank among the nations. She builds 
famous warships, that visit and astonish all mankind. She 
can turn out fleets of transports that beggar the second-rate 
nations of Europe. She has lines of steamers. She feeds 
the earth with wheat, and sends millions of gold to the East- 
ern State yearly. 

Down East the Politicians have put §500,000,000 Sil- 
ver down in the ground and get no interest for it. ' Also $30,- 
000,000 of gold deposit and get no interest on it. This comes 
.of Congress playing at banking, for with the seigniorage on 
bars added there are now §600,000,000 of metal, which are 
not used to earn interest. The warehouse receipts issued 
for every dollar of that silver carry no interest at all, show- 
ing that the money is not used. They are received for all 
sorts of payments by the U. S. jov't in place of gold, and 
therefore they displace their ow a bulk of gold in the reve- 
nue I the Federation, which must be about §500,000,000 



yearly, and of this the last 20 years' Returns show plainly 
that the bulk of the receipts at the Treasury was silver 
r warehouse Receipts. Thus the Treasury finds itself short 
I of gold, and has to go to the bankers, or to Wall St., to get 
| some gold to make the gold payments with. Here, then, is 
| the most absurd sight under the heavens, the Treasurer sit- 
j ting upon ?G00,000,000 metal coin and bars, unable to know 
bow to earn a cent of interest upon it, yet he is asking that 
he may start Savings Banks and suck up another 2,000 mill- 
| ions. Had he not better pay interest first on GOO millions of 
buried money? Before he takes upon himself to take up an- 
other 2,000 millions from the people's pockets, from the 
trade and business of America, from the Coast seaports 
from the inland cities, from the R. R. centers, from the rural 
I hamlets, from the seafaring citizens as well as the lands- 
men. The charge may be thrown in his teeth. If you can- 
jnot know how to use the $000,000,000 of coin that vou have 
-Dow in the vaults, what right have you to ask us to let you 
lhave the use of all the Savings Fund of America? First go 
(and learn to use the £000,000,000 of deposits before you at- 
tempt to take in any more deposits at all. 

I J. WILUVAY TREADWELL, 

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